ABOUT THIS BOOK

Twelve-year-old Margie Carson loves hearing  stories. And her daddy loves to tell them. One hot  summer night Daddy, Margie, and her seven-year-old  cousin Ethel troop over to the old one-room school  for round of special storytelling. Daddy tells the  girls about the time Aunt Daisy was chased by a  scary, eight-foot-tall shadow one Sunday night in her  backyard...about the flood that nearly washed away  the whole town and left a catfish on a neighbor's  pillow...stories about rocks that bite and walnut  wars...stories about Mary McLeod Bethune and the  time Eleanor Roosevelt came to town...ten wonderful  stories in all.