Book excerpt: When Marcis mother tells her daughter, they are moving to the house they built in the country, Marci is ecstatic and cannot wait to tell her friends. Not waiting for her mother to tell her the house they build is in a different state, Marci leaves the house only to come back and learn they are not moving to the outskirts of Virginia. Excited to tell his children about the move, Travis tells his children they will be moving to New Mexico. All Marci hears is they are moving to Mexico, and thinking she is moving to a third world country, she is afraid of what awaits them. Marci is afraid she will not be able to protect her eight-year-old brother, Caleb, from the scorpions and tarantulas that will be invading their new home. In My Acre of Land, the reader will follow Marci from the ten-year-old little girl who leaves Virginia to an eighty-year-old woman who lives out her life in her new state.