Strawberry Girl
Author: Lois Lenski
Illustrator: Lois Lenski
Interest Level:
3-5
Lexile Framework:
650L
Grade Level Equivalent:
4.6
Age:
8-10
Genre:
Classics, Realistic Fiction
Subject:
Families and Social Structures, Weather, Farm and Ranch Life, Courage, Moving, Survival
Free Teaching Resources: Strawberry Girl Lesson Plan
Strawberries — big, ripe, and juicy. Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking them. But her family has just moved to the Florida backwoods, and they haven't even begun their planting. “Don't count your biddies 'fore they're hatched, gal young un!”, her father tells her.
Making the new farm prosper is not easy. There is heat to suffer through, and droughts, and cold snaps. And, perhaps most worrisome of all for the Boyers, there are rowdy neighbors, just itching to start a feud.
