Sock City: Series Book #3

By Christine Carrington and Ambar Catalan

The third book in the Sock City series, It’s Big Time!, is a continuation of events from the previous book. Ray is a SCRAT (Sock City Retrieval Action Team) recruit who has a catastrophic, terrifying accident with his flyer. During his accident, he is instantly zapped from his microscopic size into a giant. Will Ray ever be able to return to his microscopic size? In Ray’s journey from this accident to his recovery, he experiences many things in this Land of the Giants. Back in Sock City, scientists are faced with difficult decisions about how to recover Ray. In the meantime, Ban, Ray’s little brother, jumps from running a puppy adoption to making a genius plan to save Sock City. A good friend from the Land of the Giants, Blake, unfortunately betrays the trust of Sock City, putting the entire civilization in danger. The discovery of Sock City is at hand, and plans are being made by a glory seeker, the mayor of Berrytown, to find it. In this microscopic society, they are faced with problems that may destroy their very existence. So far, Sock City’s advanced technology has protected their secret but for how long? Accidents happen, and how they are handled can make or break this situation. Damage control for Sock City is underway.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728301990

Christine Carrington

This is the third book of the Sock City series, It’s Big Time. Since the publication of Christine’s first book, Sock City: Missing Town—Missing Things, it has been her pleasure to visit Franklin Elementary School teacher Tasha Hatten in North Carolina, where eighty-four children read her book and made a Sock City Village and clothing for this microscopic society for a class project recommended by Christine Carrington. For the past three years she has given a comprehension class at the prestigious Campbell University to the future teachers who read the hard copy of Sock City: Missing Town—Missing Things. Following a book signing at Barnes & Noble in Burlington, Massachusetts, Christine went to the Danvers Community Access Television, where she was interviewed by host Veronica Andrews and was compared to J. K. Rowling. Ms. Andrews stated, “You have given such a gift to so many people. It’s not just a book to children but also to the parents. Everything you share with us, others learn.” Christine is working on a play for a local theater in Raleigh. It all started at the age of nine when her loving mother swapped a household item for an old Royal typewriter on a local radio station. Her books contain old-fashioned values and lessons to be learned along the way instilled by her mother, who encouraged the love of family, friends, and others and always remembering to pray, have faith, and thank God. Pictures of the school, university, interview, and “The Firefly Song,” also on YouTube, can be seen on her website: www.christinecarringtonsockcity.com

Book preview

Chapter 1: Mirror, Mirror

This clear September night appeared to be like any other routine night for the Sock City Retrieval Action Team (SCRAT). Up and away they went to the Land of the Giants, their name for Berrytown, where Sock City and its residents were located before an experiment designed to enlarge the world’s food supplies instead shrank Sock City to the size of a quarter. Berrytown had remained about the same for the past twenty years, with just a few changes along the way. A unique shop called Mirrors and More was about to open, and they were still getting deliveries before their grand opening. Ray was in his flyer, a standard black flying machine with a dome lid and storage area in the back, on a SCRAT mission to get supplies needed for Sock City’s survival. Mounted on the front of the flyer was the zapper—a size-change gun. Ray would use the zapper to shrink food, glasses, plastic lids, and the other items on his shopping list so they fit in the flyer. He could also use the zapper’s size-increase setting to restore an item to its original size once he’d returned to Sock City.

Suddenly, Ray’s flyer hit a large mirror two deliverymen were carrying in front of the shop. Everything that had just occurred flashed in front of Ray. In a split-second, he accidentally grabbed the controls of the zapper, turned the knob to the increase-size setting, and spun it toward himself.

Oh God, no! Help me! screamed Ray. His athletic, trim, microscopic body ripped through the walls of the flyer in mid-air, like a feather in the wind. Now gigantic, he appeared in front of the deliverymen and rolled over on the grass, not far from the mirror they carried.

Wow, where did you come from? one of the deliverymen shouted.

I can’t believe my eyes, the second man said. Did you see what I saw?

Ray quickly took charge of the situation and calculated all options in his new surroundings and massive body change. Those kids made me trip with their skateboards, he said without hesitation, seeing two boys walking on the sidewalk with skateboards in hand. I’m so sorry I startled you guys. That’s a gorgeous mirror you’re carrying, Ray added, trying to change the subject yet feeling terrified about what had just happened.

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One of the deliverymen asked, Are you all right?

I’m fine. Just a little startled, said Ray.

The two men looked at each other, shook their heads, and carried the mirror into the store.

Ray franticly looked in the grass for his flyer. He kept patting his face and body to assure himself that he was alive. It was hard to believe, but he was now a giant-size human being. So far, there were no bad side effects. At least for now, Ray felt almost normal, kind