Turtle is an 11 year old girl who is moving to Key West. The one thing she hates is.......Shirley Temple. Turtle hates when things are "Dandy" and she dosen't want to move. In the story she meets a group called the Diaper Gang. They go on all sorts of adventures, for example to an island!! On page 105 she meets her grandma for the first time. All she wants is to be back at home living with her mom a nothing will stop her from getting what she wants!!
Turtle's mom, Sadiebelle, is getting a new job as a housekeeper. She has to send Turtle away to live with Turtle's Aunt Minnie in Key West. Sadiebelle is very pretty and falls in love with many guys, but they leave her and she crys. She is very senstive. She works for Mrs. Budnick, the meanest person in the world! Mrs. Budnick never lets a single peron use her house phone becuase they have to work! TShe try's using it once but thing just don't work out for her. Will Turtle is away she find her true love Mr.Archie the salesman. They take Turtle back and have a great life as a big happy family!
Turtle's dad is considered rich during the Great Depresion. He is very good at selling things and has a saying. "I can sell a trap to a mouse." He was Turtle's mom's exclusive boyfriend from the time she met him!! He couldn't wait to meet Turtle and start a family!! They couldn't wait to drive down Duval Street and to walk into their very own house. Once married he hopped a on boat to Cuba and never came back.