Strawberry Girl is a Newbery Medal winning novel written and illustrated by Lois Lenski.

First published in 1945, this realistic fiction children's book, set among the "Crackers" of rural Florida, is one in Lenski's series of regional novels.

She wrote them specifically to "present vivid, sympathetic pictures of the real life of different kinds of Americans".

[1]: x  Lenski approached each book seriously; moving into the communities; sketching the plants, animals, homes and especially the children.

She lived with the people she wrote about and listened to their stories, bringing a realism that makes her books unique.