Slice-of-life set in Key West, Florida. Very charming. Turtle is a no-nonsense girl who has been sent to live with her aunt while her mom is whooed by a smooth-talking salesman and trying to make ends meet two years after the Great Depression.

I enjoyed the cast the characters, and all the mini adventures were fun. Even the emotional moments were well-done to me. One nitpick: I thought the conclusion with Slowpoke, an old friend of Turtle's mom, was very open-ended and unfinished (is it elaborated more in the book version).

I would've liked to see him take Archie's place.

a little disbelief.

this is set in 1930's (United States). would Pork Chop's brown-skinned Latino family have fit in back then??? Idk maybe things were different for them.