Aldabra, or, The Tortoise who Loved Shakespeare
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Youth level.
In Venice, Italy, ten-year-old Elisa finds she must deal with all the unexpected consequences of her beloved eccentric grandmother's transformation into a giant Aldabra tortoise, native to a small group of coral islands in the Seychelles.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2004, c2001.
Year Published: 2001
Description: 151 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 730
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0439497418 :
0439497442 (alk. paper)
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon.
SUBJECTS
Grandmothers -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Aldabra tortoise -- Fiction.
Turtles -- Fiction.
Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
Magic -- Fiction.
Venice (Italy) -- Fiction.
Italy -- Fiction.