Strawberry Girl

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Summary: Srawberrygirl
Review: Book Review of Strawberry Girl

The title of my book is strawberry girl. My book is fiction and I don't know if she wrote any other novels. I thought this book was kind of weird because it had an accent to it like (howdy yawl) so I was thinking of dropping it but I didn't so it was ok I guess. Oh and the author is Lois Lenski.
This book is about a girl and a boy. That like each other but their parent doesn't let them be together because of their differences. But they really like each other and they see each other by secret. And their parents don't find out until a while
The characters are very believable because of how the characters act and reflect their feelings because of how they react to things and their feelings to the problems!
I really do not know the author of my book. All I know is that she writes books. And one of them is Strawberry Girl the story was sort of easy. And kind of hard at the same time but the story in general was ok! I say this because that is what the book says.
I thought this book was good because of the wording source and how the character s act I think people that are from the west would love this book and specially people that have that sort of accent.


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Summary: Strawberry Family
Review: Have you ever wondered what is was like to grow up in the early 1900's? Well Strawberry Girl tells you just that. Strawberry Girl is about a young girl named Birdie Boyer. She and her family just moved to the lakes region region of Florida from Marion County Florida. They are a typical strawberry family, with six kids, trying to grow stawberries in the harsh conditions of the Florida climate. This book is a must read for young readers.
This book, Strawberry Girl, is presented in such a way, it makes it easy to follow. The book is in chronological order from start to finish. The vocabulary is easy to understand, and easy to follow.
The book lets you venture into the mind of Birdie Boyer. For example birdie says "I just don't understand why them Slaters just don't come to school anyhow." It is very easy for young readers to understand.
Strawberry Girl is best suited for young readers. The book is geared more towards their understandong of the world. This is one of the greatest books of our time. Children should be able to read this book and learn just a little more about our country's history.
The book Strawberry Girl is a must read. Lois Lenski did a wonderful job of portraying life in the early years of our country.

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Summary: Berries for Birdie
Review: I hereby nominate Lois Lenski's 1946 Newbery Award winning book, "Strawberry Girl" for the Most-Misleading-Cover-Art-And-Title Award of the 20th century. Picking up this story, I was fairly certain that this tale would be a cutesy little number about a girl who picks strawberries for fun. On the cover, after all, you see a little blond barefooted child clutching a cache of yummy red fruit as she walks along in her sunbonnet. I was anticipating Strawberry Shortcake. What I got was "Tobacco Road" for kids. An oddly shocking delight.

Lenski prefaces this book with an explanation of Florida "Crackers". Personally, I've never heard this term used as anything but a base insult. Lenski, however, seems to think that the phrase is deserving of pride. Concentrating on the hardworking rural natives of Florida, she gives a little background on the history of these people in an effort to, "present vivid, sympathetic pictures of the real life of different Americans, against authentic backgrounds of diverse localities". In this case, Lenski interviewed "Crackers" on her own time and used their stories (watered down, as was appropriate) to write this book. The result is a seething concoction of barely contained violence and danger, centered on the lives of two very different Florida Cracker families.

The Boyers have just moved into the old Roddenberry house, and they've got big plans. Originally from Marion County, Carolina, the family attempts to settle into their new life and make friends with their neighbors. Unfortunately, those neighbors include Sam Slater. A nasty man with a penchant for drunkenness, Sam's just the kind of guy who doesn't mind causing his fellow man a bit of trouble once in a while. When the wild hogs and cows of the Slaters start eating the Boyer family's crops, tensions begin to rise between the two households. The Boyers are good hardworking people with pride and bright ideas. The Slaters could be categorized as white trash, never lifting a finger to feed their own animals and jealously coveting those nice things their neighbors have. Our hero of the story, Birdie Boyer, has her own problems dealing with Shoestring Slater, a boy roughly her age who's just as likely to brag or throw a snake on a girl's hat as he is help keep his father's pigs out of trouble or lament his own lack of education.

Lenski does an interesting thing with the beginning of this book. She begins it through the point of view of seven-year-old Essie Slater, leading you to believe that she herself will be the heroine of this tale. As you slowly come to the realization that her father is not the usual wise/good/loving pop found in most 1945 children's books, the text suddenly switches to the point of view of Birdie Boyer and Essie is never heard from again. Lenski's characters aren't as cardboard cut-outish as they first appear either. At the start, the Boyers seem good and the Slaters bad. Then odd occurrences make you begin to doubt this assumption. Mr. Boyer, in an attempt to teach Shoestring Slater a lesson, whips the boy harshly in front of his mother and sisters (who, understandably, are frightened and furious by this violence). Mr. Boyer is also prone to killing his neighbor's pigs if they get in his way, even sometimes cutting off their ears as a sign. He won't even create a path for Slater's cattle herd to reach the nearest water source, instead fencing up the area and getting mad when it's cut down. The Slaters also win your affection at odd moments. Birdie is quick to blame Shoestring for anything he does wrong, but the boy is a good egg in a bad situation. He has to juggle his family's expectations while figuring out for himself what the right and wrong actions he should take really are.

A lot of this book is enjoyable partly because it goes the "Little House On the Prairie" route and explains the day-to-day goings on of the Boyers' lives in interesting ways. In what other children's book will you learn exactly how to grind sugar cane and pull it for fun afterwards? Or the ins and outs of raising strawberries in naturally sandy soil? What other book explains the intricacies of Florida weather in the spring and summer? Or tells you how to create roses out of paraffin? Part of the charm of "Strawberry Girl" is in describing how the old Florida pioneers did it. Less impressive are Lenski's pictures. It was with a heavy heart that I discovered that Lenski considered herself an artist first and a novelist second. That's too bad because the illustrations in this tale are particularly poor. I just couldn't like 'em and I suspect they'll easily deter many a prospective boy reader with their girlyness.

For a surprisingly dour and sharpely written novel about roughing it, definitely try "Strawberry Girl". You might find that the ending suffers from being a little too pat (there's a happy finish there that jars with the realism of the rest of the text) but all in all it's still a very interesting read. For a good Florida based kid's book, both this and Carl Hiaasen's, "Hoot" are excellent choices. A sobering but enjoyable tale.

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Summary: I like Strawberry Girl
Review: I like Strawberry Girl because it shows that you could be friends with your neighbors no matter what. A few things I don'tl ike about the story is when the animals in the story get killed because of the neighbors rage. It's a good book because it serves a good lesson. There's some parts that were exciting and parts that made other people mad. Another part I don't like is when Gus and Joe do something to the teacehr. I liek this book because kids should know what's right and what's wrong. This is a good book for kids ot read by themselves or in class. So I hope lots of people like it too. ...

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Summary: Strawberry Girl
Review: I liked my bookthe strawberry girl, because the book had and ton of intersiting things that can happen in the book, there is also not alot of conflict or stuff that people don't like to read about,and1 other thing that you don't have to read a book
because this book is really intersting the best part in the book would have to when her father always yells at her because she spends too much time with her friends.

the setting is mostly out in the farm where they can grow strawberrys and stuff like that.

the main character in the book is a ten year old girl named birdie boyer, because she is so cute because she can pick her strawberryin no time at at all that's why they call her the strawberry girl.

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Summary: I think Strawberry Girl is a very good book.
Review: I liked this Newbery-Award winning book because it's creative and has old-Fashion English. I think Birdie is a neat character becuase she has breath taking adventures like when there is a forest fire and her sister is in her fort inside a tree. Also, I think it is sort of weird how people acted back then, it's just like now - people drink and bad things happen. If I lived in Birdie's time I think I would have a hard time because back then everyone had a hard time getting and earning money. In this book it is exactly the same. All together I think this book is really good and I would recommend it to people who like to read suspenseful books and who like to read about older times

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Summary: Hilarious and heartwarming
Review: I love this book very much although they use broken English like ain't,biggety,iffen and many other things. But later on,I got used to it. It is about Birdie and her family who have moved to the Florida backwoods. They settle down in the Roddenburry house which is next to the Slaters family. Sam Slater,the father of 6 children always gets drunk and is always angry.

When Mrs Slater and her children come to Birdie's house for the first time,she thinks Birdie's family is superior to theirs. Birdie is planting strawberries and Mrs. Slater tells the Boyers that the strawberries will die but the Boyers do not listen. Meanwhile,Birdie Boyer gets to know Shoestring,Essie and Zephy. One day, Mr. Boyer,Birdie's dad fences up his land as he doesn't want the Slater's hogs to come into his compound and eat the strawberries. But once,the hogs did come in. Mr. Boyer was so angry that he cut off one of the hog's ears as a warning.

Many other squabbles happen to the Boyers and the Slater. Birdie gets to know Shoestring a lot. They try to make their families peaceable but to no avail. One of the incidents was grass fire. Sam Slater purposely set fire to the grass in order to burn the house down. Birdie asked for their help but Sam Slater,Gus and Joe did not budge. Gus and Joe are Sam's children. Mrs. Slater announced that she will help but the husband ordered her to stay in the house. Luckily Birdie's house was not burned but the schoolhouse was razed down to the ground.

Will Shoestring and Birdie manage to make their families be at peace ?

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Summary: Strawberry Girl
Review: I read this book over and over as a child. I finally had to purchase it for myself--the adult. It is a good child's book.

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Summary: Loved it!
Review: I read this book when I was a young girl when it was first published and I read it over and over again. I was only about 10 at the time.

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Summary: I think Strawberry Girl was a good book.
Review: I think Strawberry Girl was a good book because you get to learn a new language from the 1900's. This book is alright for fifth graders. I thik the language Lenski used was hard to understand. I also think there is a better way to settle the fighting instead of killling each others animals and shoothing the heads off their chickens with a shotgun. I think this book is good to read aloud. ...