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A sweet little read about a magical yet completely ordinary summer. Garnet has adventures (hitchhiking to a distant town, getting locked in the library) and grows up a little over the course of this summer, and we get a glimpse of who she‘ll turn out to be.

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This was sweet and charming. Reminded me a bit of Strawberry Girl and the Little House books. Also made me yearn for the carefree days of childhood summers of bare feet, sticky hands from ice cream, and that magical quality summer had.

Thimble Summer pub.1938 was a wholesome, sweet read 4.5⭐#childrensclassicread @TheBookHippie
Three Strike Summer 3.5⭐ pub 2022 #MiddleGradeMarchBuddyRead on YouTube; enjoyable, but so many heavy adult themes and topics were in this book.

It was interesting to read these back to back. Both were about young, head strong girls set in the Depression era. Yet, they were so different because of when they were published.

This was a fantastic summer read! I connected early with the description of drought and joy in rain. Then it went on with stories of family farm life and fair days that made me smile. I loved Garnet‘s spirit and wonderful family. Everything works out perfectly, but sometimes this kind of read is just an enjoyable comfort, even if it‘s not quite believable.

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Garnet's carefully tended pig, Timmy, wins a blue ribbon at the fair. Sweet book 💗 🐖🥇

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Garnet finds a silver thimble while swimming in the creek near her house while a drought slowly ruins all the farms in the area. She decides it's lucky and going to make this the best summer ever. And it does seem to bring good luck. Soon there's rain and more.

Garnet is like the spiritual granddaughter of Half Pint from Little House on the Prairie. #NewberyChallenge

“Garnet loved the library; it smelled deliciously of old books and was full of stories that she had never read” #NewberyChallenge

This book had been in my huge pile of TBR for years and it became one of the books that told me to stop buying new books (or at least buy less), read and discover gem in what you already had (but shamelessly neglected). It is a beautiful book. The one that makes you feel good when you finish it at night and wake up feeling wonderful the next morning.