Chapter 6 Summary

Opal spends a lot of her time that first summer in Naomi at the Herman W. Block Memorial Library. It's just a small house filled with books and staffed by one person: Miss Franny Block. The Library is named after her late father.

As Opal looks through the stacks of books to make her selections, she hears Miss Franny scream. She learns that Miss Franny saw Winn-Dixie outside the window to the library and thought he was a bear. Miss Franny tells Opal the story of how a bear came into the Herman W. Block Memorial Library, and she even permits Winn-Dixie inside to hear the story, too. Miss Franny becomes Opal's first new friend in Naomi.

Chapter 6 Analysis

This is the first chapter where readers see Opal make a new friend besides Winn-Dixie. Miss Franny Block spends all of her time in...