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.