false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169881243m/42447.jpg 42447 8 <b><p>The land was theirs, but so were its hardships</p></b> <p>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. &#147;Don't count your biddies 'fore they're hatched, gal young un!&#148; her father tells her.</p> <p>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.</p> 41930 1945 Strawberry Girl (60th Anniversary Edition) total:661|5:134|4:240|3:229|2:41|1:17| 661 2416 875 81 3 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 12:35:16 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 09:53:32 -0800 2009
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