Thimble Summer

Thimble Summer

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name = Thimble Summer
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author = Elizabeth Enright
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Children's novel
publisher = Farrar & Rinehart
release_date = 1938
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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"Thimble Summer" is a novel by Elizabeth Enright that won the 1939 Newbery Medal. It is set in Depression-era rural Wisconsin.

Plot summary

The very evening that nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in a dried-up riverbed near the farm where she lives, the drought that has threatened her family's financial future is broken with a rainstorm. The days that follow are filled with exciting events: the Lindens come by money to rebuild their barn, Garnet's pig wins a blue ribbon at the fair, and a young boy comes to live with the Lindens as their adopted son.

The summer is so wonderful that Garnet comes to believe that the thimble had magical powers, and she vows to remember that time as her "thimble summer".


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