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Thimble Summer
by Elizabeth Enright
Details
Pages
144
Word Count
36363
Lexile
940L
AR
5.7
Grade Level
G5 - G6
Genre
Historical Fiction
Summary
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.
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