Turtle's mom gets a job cleaning house for a wealthy old lady who does not like kids. Turtle is sent to Key West to live with her mother's sister and her boy cousins. The cousins run a babysitting service and have developed a secret recipe for diaper rash. It is 1935, during the Great Depression. Shirley Temple and Little Orphan Annie are very popular, although Turtle does not care for Shirley. Turtle offers to help care for her estranged grandmother and finds a gold coin and a treasure map inside her grandmother's piano. The cousins and Turtle "borrow" a boat, find the treasure, lose the boat, and are caught in a hurricane. This is an enjoyable read that does not feature "and they all live happily ever after ending." Something for everyone?
Mark Twain Award Preliminary Nominee 2012-13
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