Thimble Summer
- Thimble Summer
Infobox Book
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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isbn = NA
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followed_by ="Thimble Summer" is a novel by
Elizabeth Enright that won the 1939Newbery Medal . It is set in Depression-era ruralWisconsin .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'spig 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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