Green Threshold

by Mary Wolfe Thompson

Ginger at 16, and her architect brother, Hal, a badly disabled veteran, have come to Vermont for Hal's mental and physical health. Ginger had wanted to become an architect too, and her disappointment is intense as she admits lack of talent. Only when she learns that her bent for mathematics offers its own solution, does she find her own balance.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1954

About the author

Mary Wolfe Thompson was an author of children's books. She was born in 1886 in Connecticut, the daughter of a doctor. She grew up in Trenton, New Jersey, and attended the New York School Fine and Applied Arts and did graduate studies at Columbia University.
She was listed as a notable author by Marquis Who's Who. She died in North Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont, in 1970.

Reviews

[Oolookitty · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not one of those writer’s best. Pretty simplistic story, and Ginger is a little too obsessed with her brother to the exclusion of everything else. I realize this is the point of her story, but it’s just a little over the top.