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When Fara Ross puts on mismatched socks accidentally one morning, little does she know that it will ignite her political career. What begins as a wardrobe malfunction grows into an expression of freedom in footwear, and that can only lead to bigger things — like the race for sixth-grade student council president.
Fara knows she is perfect for the job. But as the election nears, she realizes that everyone, from her friends on her campaign team to her entire town, is paying more attention to her socks than to the issues that she stands for. All Fara wants is to serve the community. Does she have the creativity and the passion that it takes to help people see beyond her feet? Even at the cost of her friendships? Who knew that socks could spark such a revolution — and so many problems?!
Fara accidentally gained a reputation for making a difference when she wore mismatched socks. She came to consider it an issue of personal freedom. When she graduated from elementary school, she received the Originality Award. Fara's family and friends had a sock party for her birthday. They played pin the socks on the feet, ate a sock-shaped pizza, broke a pinata filled with rolled up socks instead of candy. Now, Fara wants to use her reputation to do something to make a real difference. Fara decides to run for sixth grade Student Council, capitalizing on her reputation as Sock Girl. Everyone gets together to make posters and think up slogans, which all relate to socks. Growing tired of sock-related talk and sock-related jokes, Fara rethinks how to best express her individuality. After all, that was really just a wardrobe malfunction. Why can't other people see beyond her feet? Fara hopes letters to the editor and through the mail will help her get elected, and she finds that younger siblings suddenly consider her to be famous. With much team effort and many surprises, the sixth graders learn about elections, politics, and the Sockinental Congress. Reviewer: JoAn Watson Martin
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Hirofumi Naito
reviewed Standing for Socks on March 17, 2019
Standing for Socks
*Contains Spoilers
Welcome to Stockville, (AKA Socksville) Where young Fara Ross lives a ordinary life. That is until she makes the monumental mistake of wearing mismatched socks!
The people of Socksville are mesmerized, except for the evil Melodee Simon, who is evil because she utters snide comments to others'nevermind that others are unkind to her, that's not important' she says that Fara's socks are lame. *gasp*
Anyway Fara decides that wearing mismatched socks makes a statement about freedom and individuality. The only problem is now people only seem to see her socks! Allowing the evil Melodee to "steal" away the Harvy award (an award given to the best of students),leaving Fara to eat her own socks.
Sooo evil.
Fara decides to use her socks for good! She will use them to win the student council election, and become the perfect class president. The evil Melodee decides to run too, causing everyone to roll their eyes.
No one will vote for her! She's so evil, even the teachers hate her!
Meanwhile Fara's friend Jody writes an article about just how uhhhhmaaaazing Fara is for wearing mismatched socks. Fara soon starts to get letters from others who face sock related woes.
Could it be true? Fara had thought she was alone in the sock problem department, but now she's aware of the fact that there are others like her. Bolstered by this revelation, she forms the SOCKINENTAL CONGRESS, a safe place for those facing sock trauma.
Only problem is this gets on TV, which counts as outside publicity, which is against the rules of the student council election! Oh no! Poor Fara is disqualified, and loses her friends in the process, because... drama? The Evil Melodee wins by default and plunges Fara into despair.
Fara soon develops a Harry Potter book 5 complex, believing that no one can understand her suffering. Is mismatched socks her cross to forever bear? Will she be doomed to hear sock puns every other sentence?
Enough! She decides, this will not destroy her. She then wins back her friends easily, because that was a subplot.
At School she is called into the principal's office, where she learns that Melodee cheated! Or rather Melodee's mother did. Ms. Simon had alerted the press to the Sockinental Congress, to trick Fara into getting disqualified!
Melodee is then forced to give up her glorious title of class president, and neither she nor Fara may reign. Oh well. But wait! Fara has another friend, who also has good ideas for the school. Who knew? Anyway this friend runs, and wins, leaving Fara free to match her socks with pride.
The End.
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