A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silverthimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the longdrought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and thelivestock, and money for Garnet’s father. Garnet can’t help feelingthat the thimble is a magic talisman, for the summer proves to beinteresting and exciting in so many different ways. There is the arrival of Eric, an orphanwho becomes a member of the Linden family; the building of a newbarn; and the county fair at which Garnet’s carefully tended pig,Timmy, wins a blue ribbon. Every day brings adventure of some kindto Garnet and her best friend, Citronella. As far as Garnet isconcerned, the thimble is responsible for each good thing thathappens during this magic summer—her thimble summer.
When Elmer Elevator hears about the plight of an overworked andunderappreciated baby flying dragon, he stows away on a ship andtravels to Wild Island to rescue the dragon.
Jin Wang starts at a new school where he’s the onlyChinese-American student. When a boy from Taiwan joins his class,Jin doesn’t want to be associated with an FOB like him. Jin justwants to be an all-American boy, because he’s in love with anall-American girl. Danny is an all-American boy: great atbasketball, popular with the girls. But his obnoxious Chinesecousin Chin-Kee’s annual visit is such a disaster that it ruinsDanny’s reputation at school, leaving him with no choice but totransfer somewhere he can start all over again. The Monkey King haslived for thousands of years and mastered the arts of kung fu andthe heavenly disciplines. He’s ready to join the ranks of theimmortal gods in heaven. But there’s no place in heaven for amonkey. Each of these characters cannot help himself alone, but howcan they possibly help each other? They’re going to have to find away—if they want fix the disasters their lives have become.
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Momo undertakes a dangerous journey from the mountains of Tibet to the city of Calcutta, in search of her stolen dog Pempa