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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 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: End of the Open Range
Review: Set in the Florida backwoods of the early 1900's this story is one of several books by Lois Lenski with a specific regional flavor. This author deliberately chose various rural areas of the country in which to live, get to know the people about whom she was writing, make accurate sketches of the objects she found there, and perform detailed research of recent past events. Featuring the dirt poor "Crackers" STRAWBERRY GIRL introduces mainstream American kids to such issues as: the struggle for economic survival, the Importance of being a good neighbor;
and the rural controversy of Fences versus Open Range. Many sections of nothern Florida were just emerging from frontier status; it was an era when illiterate and embittered men
callously made their own law by indulging in a rampage of selfish spite and anti social behavior. Trouble between the newcomers from Caroliny and the embedded Slaters brews into a life-threatening feud. The kind Boyer family moves into an old house in the piney woods; Birdie's generous parents show courtesy, hospitality and charity to all, as they try to grow strawberries and make a decent home for their children and an honest living from the untamed land and forest. But the Slaters have earned a reputation for lawlessness; Pa encourages his older sons to be vicious and ultimately vows to drive out the newcomers--one way or another! We pity poor, boastful Shoestring--a youth caught between opposing life styles. Birdie wants to be his friend, but she she often winds up hating him. This story is written in local dialect, but readers will quickly get the hang of the slang. Ms Lenski's B/W illustrations enhance our understanding of the primitive conditions under which her characters operate. Since parents should model family values and peaceful methods of conflict resolution, Pa Slater's brood proves how white trash self perpetuates. Will anything ever cause a change of heart in that scumbag father/miserable husband? Will the country ever be rid of his menace and legacy of revenge? Based on many actual incidents, STRAWBERRY GIRL reads easily and will capture the interest of most elementary children. An excellent springboard for classroom discussion about the dilemma of solving personal problems when there is no legal recourse.
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Summary: NeShonda Strawberry sweetness
Review: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski Brief summary and Review:
Birdie Boyer and her family just moved into a small town in Florida. The strawberry farming family was greeted by the Slaters, a backwoods family whose business is raising cattle on the open range. A family feud arises between the Slaters and the Boyers that involves the whole town. The Slaters, mostly Mr. Sam Slater and his two oldest boys Gus and Joe, made it their mission to torment the Boyers. They even went as far as attempting to burn the Boyers' home down and cutting the fences they worked so hard to put up. Along with the Slaters trying to run the family out of town, the Boyers faced other hardships such as a storm blowing the roof off their chicken house and the smoldering heat of the Florida summer. Even after all the trouble the Slaters put them through, the Boyers still lent a helping hand to the Slaters when Mrs. Slater grew deathly ill after Mr. Slater disappeared for weeks with his two oldest sons. When Mr. Slater finally returned, he found the Boyers in his home caring for his sick wife. Because of the Boyers' kindness, Mr. Slater changed his angry, hurtful ways. This story is wonderful in showing how the morals and values of some families are most often different from other families. It also teaches a lot on the ways of life in Florida during the early 1900s. The story inspires its readers to treat others with kindness no matter how the world is treating you because life is more rewarding when it is lived that way. Third or fourth graders will take great interest in the story. Teachers could use the book to integrate numerous subject areas such as language arts, history, geography, music, social relationships and science. Resources used in planning:
1. Lenski, L. (1973). Strawberry Girl. New York: HarperTrophy. 2. Gibbons, G. (1991). From Seed to Plant. New York: Holiday House. 3. "Ramsey's Farm Home Page" http://www.ramseysfarm.com 4. Video (not rated): Dorling Kindersley (Studio). (1997). Eyewitness Plant. 5. "Florida History" http://www.floridasmart.com/subjects/history_fl.htm 6. "Division of Historical Resources - Florida Department of State" http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/
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Summary: NeShonda Strawberry sweetness
Review: Strawberry Girl is a good book. I enjoyed it because of all the characters and excitment. The characters gave me a good idea of life a long time ago. I don't think I would have liked to lived in those times. Birdie Boyer worked very hard trying to be a strawberry girl. She had lots of chores to do each day plus go to school. The family worked hard too, things changed for the family when the Slaters came to visit. Birdie knew the Slaters would cause trouble for her family. The family pulled together and things turned out fine.
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Summary: Like strawberries? Here's a good one!
Review: Strawberry Girl is a great book written and illustrated by Lois Lenski. I think that, because every time I started to read it, I couldn't stop reading! Although there are some parts that has violence,it was still very good. I really recommend this book to children ten and up, due to the violence. Strawberry Girl takes oplace in Florida in about the 1900's. It is about a seven member family, and the neighbors. After about a month of settling, the trouble starts, the neighbors get mad, because Birdies dad puts some fences around the fields so that way, Slater's cattle doesn't go into the property. The vegetation, strawberry fields, and cattle are growing very well, Mr. Slater also gets mad, and jealous. Birdie was very helpful in every way, from watering the strawberry fields, to caring for her small sibilings. I like the end a lot, because both families become very good friends. Also people started to call Birdie, Strawberry Girl, because of selling, watering, and arranging the strawberry fields. The rest of the fun is for me to know and for you to find out!
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Summary: Wonderful Historic Fiction!
Review: True to life adventures in a rural setting in Florida in the early l900's, the characters present an understanding of what "it was like, back then." Great award winning book! Enduring classic...
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