After Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble, her life becomes much more exciting. Rain comes to end the drought which had threatened their crops and animals. An orphan boy comes to their farm and becomes part of their family. Garnet and her friend get locked in the library. She gets to run the threshing machine but falls asleep at the wheel. And all summer long, she is fattening her pig for the County Fair. Read about the quiet adventures of Garnet and her 'magic' thimble on a Wisconsin farm in the 1930s