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Strawberry Girl
Children's fiction
Strawberry Girl
208 pages · First published 1945
Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer moves with her family to Florida’s scrub country, where they hope to establish a successful strawberry farm. Their neighbors, the Slaters, live very differently, and conflict between the families grows from small disagreements into serious trouble. Birdie learns that farming depends on weather, work, community, and the difficult task of living beside people whose choices frustrate you. Lois Lenski’s Newbery Medal-winning regional novel portrays rural Florida life through a child’s perspective, using family rivalry and agriculture to explore poverty, pride, and cooperation.
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Violent family feud; threats and intimidation between neighboring families; destruction of crops/livestock and rural hardship; poverty; period dialect and social attitudes.
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- Garnish: Lemon wheel.
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