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Thimble Summer Paperback - 2008

by Elizabeth Enright; Elizabeth Enright (Illustrator)

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A silver thimble and a new friend make a girl's summer magical in Elizabeth Enright's Thimble Summer.

A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and the livestock, and money for Garnet's father. Garnet can't help feeling that the thimble is a magic talisman, for the summer proves to be interesting and exciting in so many different ways.

There is the arrival of Eric, an orphan who becomes a member of the Linden family; the building of a new barn; and the county fair at which Garnet's carefully tended pig, Timmy, wins a blue ribbon. Every day brings adventure of some kind to Garnet and her best friend, Citronella. As far as Garnet is concerned, the thimble is responsible for each good thing that happens during this magic summer--her thimble summer.

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Garnet thought this must be the hottest day that had ever been in the world.

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'One of the best written of this season's juveniles.... will interest both girls and boys, since it is about Garnet Linden and her brother Jay, and can find readers up to twelve and over. The setting is a middle-western farm, and the descriptions of wind and weather are vivid and authentic. There is a truly American quality about it that delighted me.' - Rosemary Carr Benet, The Saturday Review of Literature.

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  • Title Thimble Summer
  • Author Elizabeth Enright; Elizabeth Enright (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Square Fish, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2008-04-29
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780312380021 / 031238002X
  • Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.66 x 5.22 x 0.43 in (19.46 x 13.26 x 1.09 cm)
  • Age range 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 810
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Farm life, Wisconsin
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Elizabeth Enright (1907-1968) was a talented writer whose many awards include the 1939 John Newbery Medal for Thimble Summer and a 1958 Newbery Honor for Gone-Away Lake. Among her other beloved titles are her books about the Melendy family, beginning with The Saturdays (1941). Enright also wrote short stories for adults, and her work was published in The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan, Harper's, and The Saturday Evening Post.
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