书名：Strawberry Girl草莓女孩
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数650L
作者：Lois Lenski
出版社名称：HarperCollins Children’s Books
出版时间：2005
语种：英文
ISBN：9780064405850
商品尺寸：13.3 x 1.3 x 19 cm
包装：平装
页数：208
Strawberry Girl《草莓女孩》是美国作家Lois Lenski写的一本儿童文学小说，曾获得纽伯瑞金奖。本书讲述的是发生在1900年的故事，移居到佛罗里达州的一家人，在新的土地上营造着一个美丽新家园，却因为在房前种植草莓，和他们的邻居发生了一些矛盾，但是通过“草莓女孩”柏蒂的努力，两家人终于成为了亲密的朋友……
The land was theirs, but so were its hardships
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. Don’t count your biddies’ fore they’re hatched, gal young un!; her father tells her.
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.

Review
“A strong sense of place pervades this story of Birdie Boyer, a little Cracker girl who helps her Florida family to raise strawberries and to cope with the shiftless Slaters next door.”  — BE.

“Full of the flavor of Florida lake country.”  — Basic Book Collection for Junior High Schools (ALA)
二十世纪初，美国佛罗里达绵延着一片未经开垦的乡野，波以耳家族是刚搬来的新居民，他们除了和恶劣的环境对抗，还要面对邻居的不友善。柏蒂是波以耳家的女儿，她是个直率、善良的小女孩。但她不喜欢隔壁的恶邻居，尤其是爱吹牛的男孩—鞋带，更讨厌那个常找麻烦的史特拉斯先生，直率的她常和鞋带斗嘴，两个人却成了欢喜冤家。 透过小女孩的眼睛，我们看到波以耳家族的坚定与仁慈，不仅影响自己家的孩子，更感化史特拉斯先生，快乐和谐的生活终能来临。
In addition to illustrating the first four Betsy-Tacy books,Lois Lenski (1893-1974) was the Newberry Medal winning author of Strawberry Girl.

Lois Lenski，美国著名少儿学家，作品甚多，超过90件以上。得奖作品：《草莓女孩》1946年纽伯瑞金牌奖、《Phebe Fairchild: Her Book》1938年纽伯瑞银牌奖、《Indian Captive》1942年纽伯瑞银牌奖。

“Thar goes our cow, Pa!” said the little girl. “Shore ’nough, that do look like one of our cows, now don’t it?”
The man tipped his slat-backed chair against the wall of the house. He spat across the porch floor onto the sandy yard. His voice was a lazy drawl. He closed his eyes again.
“She’s got our markin’ brand on her, Pa. A big S inside a circle,” said Essie.
The man, Sam Slater, looked up. Shore ’nough, so she has.
“She’s headin’ right for them orange trees, Pa,” said Essie.
“Them new leaves taste mighty good, I reckon,” replied her fther. “Sh’ hungry, pore thing!”
A clatter of dishes sounded from within the house and a baby began to cry.
“You’d be pore, too, did you never git nothin’ to eat,” said the unseen Mrs. Slater.
There was no answer.
She goes in that orange grove, them new folks The legs of the man’s chair came down on the porch floor with a thump. He opened his eyes. “What new folks?”
“Them new folks what moved in the ole Roddenberry house,” said Essie.
“New folks in that big ole house? Who tole you?” His staring gray eyes fixed themselves on the pale blue ones of his daughter.
“Jeff done tole me,” said Essie. Although she was only seven, she was not afraid of her father. “They been here most a month already. They come in a big wagon. They moved in while you was away, Pa. We watched ’em unload.”
“You did, eh?” growled Pa Slater. “You let ’em see you?”
“No.” Essie smiled knowingly. “We hid in the palmettos, Pa. We got us a tunnel to hide in.”
Her father grinned back at her. “Who are they?”
Jeff says...
Mrs. Slater, within, interrupted. “Name’s Boyer. The man’s a Caroliny feller.”
“Why ain’t you done tole me?”
“Cause you been gone away for so long.”
“Got kids?” asked Slater.
“Regular strawberry family, jedgin’ from the size of it—six or seven young uns, I reckon.”
Mrs. Slater’s reply was followed by the darter of dishes and the crying of the baby. A smaller girl, about five, came out and climbed up on her father’s lap.