When Garnet finds a silver thimble in the sand by the river, she is sure it’s magical. But is it magical enough to help her pig, Timmy, win a blue ribbon on Fair Day?

Children visiting a farm enjoy a picnic made up of all the foods the farm produces.

This Pulitzer Prize winning novel concerns sensitive and idealistic Claude Wheeler. Dissatisfied with his life as a Nebraskan farmer and with the ways of his family, he finds true meaning and beauty when he enters the army and goes to France in World War I.