Down Dairy Farm Road

Junie Mae thinks she has the sorriest, straightest hair on Dairy Farm Road. How she would love to have beauty parlor curls like Lucinda Bodine’s. But her grandpa is the local animal doctor, and he doesn’t even earn money: Doc is paid in pickles, milk, pie, squash, beans, corn-and kittens.
Junie Mae adores the kittens. Still, she’s quite willing to sell the five at a dollar a piece to make possible a visit to Miss Carlene’s Beauty Boutique.
One by one, she tries to unload them. Then Lucinda Bodine – who leaves her brand new bike and roller skates lying in a ditch – offers to buy them all…