The great sockathon
By: Michael Delaney
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780525468561
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Trees; Fiction; Supernatural; Fund raising; Best friends; Ghosts; Friendship
Description: An eerie encounter with a ghost girl promises an unusual summer for four friends. The ghost needs the girls' help-the town is about to cut down the historic, but dying, tree she has haunted since her death in a fall seventy years before. The girls dream up a plan to save the tree: they'll have a sockathon-a wacky fundraiser involving a chain of socks. But how can collecting socks raise enough money in time?nbsp; And what does the mysterious spirit of Eliza Baker really want? Told in four different voices, the novel gracefully weaves together the perspectives of the plucky girls in a funny and touching middle-grade story about friendship and giving to the community.