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Set in a little-known backwoods region of Florida, Strawberry Girl is the first of the Lenski regional books and the winner of the Newbery award.

Because of a bet, Billy's in the uncomfortable position of having to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days.

Born in the Caribbean islands, Kit finds life in the Connecticut colony of her relatives to be extremely bleak and lonely. When her only friendship is discovered, she finds herself accused of witchcraft.

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. in a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and...