Turtle Fiction - A growing list
Explore Turtle Fiction - A growing list of captivating books featuring turtles. Discover the best fiction stories with turtles as central characters, regularly updated for your reading pleasure.
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Confessions of a Turtle Wife
by Anita Baskin-Salzberg
The chronicles of a turtle-challenged marriage, in which the unsuspecting bride first thinks the groom's obsession with turtles is--apart from being cute--ancient history. Then she too becomes a "turtle lover" and co-owner of 14 turtles.
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Eleven Turtle Tales
by Pleasant DeSpain
Eleven tales featuring Turtle, from Africa, India, Japan, Australia, and the Americas.
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Pentimento
by Lillian Hellman
In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, the legendary playwright Lillian Hellman looks back at some of the people who, wittingly or unwittingly, exerted profound influence on her development as a woman and a writer. The portraits include Hellman's recollection of a lifelong friendship that began in childhood, reminiscences that formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning film Julia.
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Esio Trot
by Roald Dahl
Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.
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Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
by Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss presents three modern fables in the rhyming favorite Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories. The collection features tales about greed (“Yertle the Turtle”), vanity (“Gertrude McFuzz”), and pride (“The Big Brag”). In no other book does a small burp have such political importance! Yet again, Dr. Seuss proves that he and classic picture books go hand in hand.
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Turtle Moon
by Alice Hoffman
Turtle Moon transports the listener to Verity, Florida, a place where anything can happen during the month of May, when migrating sea turtles come to town, mistaking the glow of the streetlights for the moon. A young single mother is murdered in her apartment and her baby is gone. Keith, a 12-year-old boy in the same apartment building - the self-styled "meanest boy" in town - also disappears. In pursuit of the baby, the boy and the killer, are Keith's divorced mother and a cop who himself was once considered the meanest boy in town. Their search leads them down the humid byways of a Florida populated almost exclusively by people from somewhere else; emotional refugees seeking sanctuary along the swampy coast.
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Turtle Diary
by Russell Hoban
The sea turtles at the London Zoo become the mutual obsession of two lonely strangers who dream of setting free the turtles and themselves.
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Small Gods
by Terry Pratchett
Lost in the chill deeps of space between the galaxies, it sails on forever, a flat, circular world carried on the back of a giant turtle— Discworld —a land where the unexpected can be expected. Where the strangest things happen to the nicest people. Like Brutha, a simple lad who only wants to tend his melon patch. Until one day he hears the voice of a god calling his name. A small god, to be sure. But bossy as Hell.