The mood of George Washington's Socks by Elvira Woodruff is in part humorous, in addition to being suspenseful. For example, when Matt starts on his adventure, he is depressed that he has to bring his kid sister, Katie, along with him. The first thing she does when the Adventure Club is camping is to ask for her blanket (page 6).
Another example of humor in the book is after Matt and the other members of the Adventure Club travel back in time to meet George Washington. Hooter, another member of the club, asks, "Are we on television?" (page 36). An officer in Washington's boat says that the kids' "dress is foreign" (page 36). A lot of the humor in this section of the book has to do with the difficulty of the kids to understand the ways of life of George Washington and his troops and the difficulty that Washington and his men have understanding kids from a totally different time period. While the kids go on an adventure that is at times scary, they also have a lot of laughs along the way.
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