Ruth, raised on a rural farm in North Carolina, speaks the language of someone being reared in the South""you can almost hear her accent as she expresses her thoughts with cute phrases, as only a true Southern child would speak. Ruth's life on the farm is described in her own childlike way: being tucked into bed each night, playing with and feeding some of the farm animals, and getting to ride on Daddy's big tractor. Ruth loves her father for all the ways he shows his love, even with gentle discipline. See Ruth learn how to be honest to keep others from being wrongly punished, as well as discovering that she can be anything she wants to be when she grows up.