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Thimble Summer

By: Elizabeth Enright
Narrated by: Joan Allen
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When Garnet finds a silver thimble in the sand by the river, she is sure it’s magical. But is it magical enough to help her pig, Timmy, win a blue ribbon on Fair Day?
©2008 Elizabeth Enright (P)2008 Random House, Inc.
Fiction Geography & Cultures Growing Up Growing Up & Facts of Life Literature & Fiction United States
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Deserved Newbery Winner that captures a disappearing world of rural childhood America

This story of one summer in pre-war rural Wisconsin takes the reader through a series of episodes seen through the eyes of Garnet Linden, a nine-year-old farm girl. The adventures Garnet relates she sees through the lens of her belief that the discovery, early in the summer, of a silver thimble in a river bed exposed by drought wrought a magical transformation in the fortunes of her family. The drought itself hints at the impact of the Depression still casting a shadow over the country. The references to homelessness, shanty towns and penury punctuate lighthearted comments that fit easily into the understanding of the children in the narrative.

The reading here is faultless; a superb performance with the right pace, energy and spirit to transform the hearer into this vanished world.

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