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Full of Beans / Jennifer L. Holm.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Random House, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: 195 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780553510362 (hardback)
  • 0553510363 (hardback)
  • 9780553510379 (lib. bdg.)
  • 0553510371 (lib. bdg.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Awards:
  • A Junior Library Guild selection.
Summary: Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Fiction Holm Jennifer Available 33111008548188
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction Holm Jennifer Available 33111008459279
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Newbery Honor Book Turtle in Paradise is beloved by readers, and now they can return to this wonderful world through the eyes of Turtle's cousin Beans.

Grown-ups lie. That's one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest bunch of barefoot conchs (that means "locals") in all of Key West. Not that Beans really minds; it's 1934, the middle of the Great Depression. With no jobs on the island, and no money anywhere, who can really blame the grown-ups for telling a few tales? Besides, Beans isn't anyone's fool. In fact, he has plans. Big plans. And the consequences might surprise even Beans himself.

Praise-

"As a storyteller, Holm is superb."- School Library Journal

"Holm impressively wraps pathos with comedy."- Booklist

"Anyone interested in learning to write crowd-pleasing historical fiction for elementary school readers would be wise to study Holm's work."- Publishers Weekly , starred review

"Sweet, funny and superb."- Kirkus Reviews , Starred Review

Companion to Turtle in paradise.

Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

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