Book Title: Strawberry Girl
Author: Lois Lenski (and illustrator)
Number of Pages: 192
Genre: fiction
Book Award: John Newbery Medal
"Don't count your biddies 'for they're hatched, gal young un!"
The main character Birdie Boyer lived with her mum, father and siblings in Florida. They were quite rich, and could afford a healthy cattle, a clean house, and a decent garden full of fruit and vegetables they could grow. The Boyer family lived next to the Slaters, a very poor family, but very troublesome as well. The problem was that the Slaters were very jealous of the good advances the Boyers were making, so they decided to do everything to try to destroy them. 
Birdie was particularly fond strawberries. They had started growing well, when the Slaters ran their cattle over the strawberries. Birdie was very upset, and so were her parents. They decided the best way to avoid the cattle was by building up a fence. The Slater's got terribly annoyed. They hated fences, and hated it even more that the neighbours could afford them to keep their animals away. SO one day the Slaters decided to burn the Boyer's house down. Mrs. Slater wanted to help her neighbours and learn to love them however Mr. Slater didn't let that.
One day while Mr. Slater was gone Mrs. Slater got ill. She couldn't take care of the children any more. SO Mrs. Buyer came and helped her out until Mr. Slater came. When he found out that he left his wife sick, he was very sorry, and soon learned to love his neighbour's because they save their families life.
I liked this book, however it was quite easy.