Strawberry girl [sound recording] /
Lois Lenski.
- Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p2011.
- 4 sound discs (4 hr., 37 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 043700
- Brilliance Audio on compact disc .
Unabridged. Compact disc. In an audio afterword, children's book expert Kathleen T. Horning talks about the context in which "Strawberry girl" was written, and how the problems and conflicts we see in the book relate to our world today.
The land was theirs, but so were its hardships. Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking strawberries. But her family has just moved to the Florida backwoods, and they haven't even begun their planting. 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.