Thimble summer / written and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780312380021 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 136 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: First Square Fish edition.
- Publisher: New York : Square Fish/ Henry Holt, 2008.
- Copyright: ©1938
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Target Audience Note: | 810 Lexile |
Awards Note: | Winner of the Newbery Medal, 1939. |
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Thimble Summer
By Elizabeth Enright
Macmillan
All rights reserved.
Contents
TITLE PAGE,
COPYRIGHT NOTICE,
DEDICATION,
I. THE SILVER THIMBLE,
II. THE CORAL BRACELET,
III. THE LIME KILN,
IV. THE STRANGER,
V. LOCKED IN,
VI. JOURNEY,
VII. "AS A RAGPICKER'S POCKET",
VIII. FAIR DAY,
IX. ICE-CREAM CONES AND BLUE RIBBONS,
X. THE SILVER THIMBLE,
NEWBERY MEDAL ACCEPTANCE SPEECH,
ABOUT THE AUTHOR,
ALSO BY ELIZABETH ENRIGHT,
COPYRIGHT,
CHAPTER 1
The Silver Thimble
GARNET thought this must be the hottest day that had ever been in the world. Every day for weeks she had thought the same thing, but this was really the worst of all. This morning the thermometer outside the village drug store had pointed a thin red finger to one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit.
It was like being inside of a drum. The sky like a bright skin was stretched tight above the valley, and the earth too, was tight and hard with heat. Later, when it was dark, there would be a noise of thunder, as though a great hand beat upon the drum; there would be heavy clouds above the hills, and flashes of heat lightning, but no rain. It had been like that for a long time. After supper each night her father came out of the house and looked up at the sky, then down at his fields of corn and oats. "No," he would say, shaking his head, "No rain tonight."
The oats were turning yellow before their time, and the corn leaves were torn and brittle, rustling like newspaper when the dry wind blew upon them. If the rain didn't come soon there would be no corn to harvest, and they would have to cut the oats for hay.
Garnet looked up at the smooth sky angrily, and shook her fist. "You!" she cried, "Why in time can't you let down a little rain!"
At each step her bare feet kicked up a small cloud of dust. There was dust in her hair, and up her nose, making it tickle.
Garnet was halfway between nine and ten. She had long legs and long arms, two taffy-colored pigtails, a freckled nose that turned up, and eyes that were almost green and almost brown. She wore a pair of blue overalls, cut off above the knee. She could whistle between her teeth like a boy and was doing it now, very softly, without thinking. She had forgotten all about her anger at the sky.
Under its big, black fir trees the Hausers' farm lay solid and sleepy-looking at the bend in the road. There was a bed of burning red salvia flowers on the lawn, and the tractor and threshing machine stood side by side in the shade, like friendly monsters. Across the road the Hauser pigs lay slumbering and wheezing under their shelter. "Lazy fat things," said Garnet, and threw a pebble at the biggest hog, who snorted horribly and lumbered to his feet. But Garnet just laughed at him; the fence was between them.
Behind her a screen door twanged shut, and Citronella Hauser came down the steps of her house flapping a dish towel like a fan. She was a fat little girl, with red cheeks and thick yellow bangs.
"Land!" she called to Garnet. "Isn't it hot! Where you going?"
"For the mail," said Garnet. "We might go swimming," she added thoughtfully.
But no. Citronella had to help her mother with the ironing. "A fine thing to have to do on a day like this," she said rather crossly. "I bet you I'll melt all over the kitchen floor like a pound and a half of butter."
Garnet giggled at this picture and started on her way.
"Wait a minute," said Citronella, "I might as well see if there's any mail for us too."
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