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Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm (meggyweg)
meggyweg: Both these books are about young girls with irresponsible mothers, sent to live with relatives they don't know.

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It was February 9th, 1985, a date I knew I would remember forever as the worst day of my life.

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Tallahassee was about as miserable as a twelve-year-old could be. She'd always lived with her beautiful, free-spirited mother, Liz, and she could do anything she pleased-pig-out on junk food, veg-out on TV, forget about homework. Now Liz was off to Hollywood and Tallahassee was dumped off to live with Aunt Thelma-and her "house rules."

It was the worst. Liz promised to get her out of there as soon as she got settled in California. But it was Tallahassee, not Liz, who got settled...in a place where finding out about her mother's past helped her figure out her own future.

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Tallahassee Higgins enjoys the vagabond lifestyle she lives with her free-spirited mother, but when Mother goes to Los Angeles to try her luck in TV and movies, Tallahassee is placed with her uncle whose conventional suburban lifestyle makes her question her mother's values--and her own.… (more)