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BOOK REVIEW: Island Girl
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by: Laura V. Hilton Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Island Girl Author: Sandra Byrd Publisher: Bethany House Publishers ISBN: 0-7642-0020-8 Genre: Inspirational/Juvenile/Fiction
Every summer, thirteen-year-old Meg returns to her grandparents’ berry farm in Oregon. But this year, everything is different. Meg’s mother is remarried and has a new baby on the way, and Meg’s dad is possibly retiring from the military and facing life-changing decisions. Both Meg’s mom and dad want Meg to live with them, but they agree to let her choose which parent she prefers to live with for the next school year.
Meg’s grandmother encourages Meg and a migrant worker’s daughter, Tia, to work in a small stand to sell berries, but the road-side stand is too far off the beaten path for the berries to sell. Still, the girls enjoy the time they spend together, but are disappointed when they don’t make the money they dreamed of. Meg wanted to buy some track equipment she desperately needs, and Tia hopes to help a boy who needs an operation.
With the berries rotting, unsold, Meg and Tia try to decide what to do with the stand. Then an idea hits both girls at once. Will it work? Can the girls earn the money they need?
I enjoyed reading Island Girl and highly recommend this book for any preteen or teen girls in your life. I’m passing it down to my ten-year-old daughter and know she’ll enjoy it every bit as much as I did. The whole book reminds one of summer and fresh fruit—could be dangerous when you start craving the fruit and need to make a run to the supermarket for out of season berries!
Meg is an adorable character, friendly and outgoing. I would have liked to have been friends with her when I was a teen. I didn’t envy her situation changing. $9.99. 234 pages.
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