SSIS middle schoolers roll out their book tonight….

Vida is one of the kids featured in the collection...

Tonight (Friday), Griffin Bay Bookstore hosts the Spring Street International School’s special event for middle school authors at 7pm…here’s more from the school:

A SPECIAL EVENT FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL AUTHORS TO ANNOUNCE THE PUBLICATION OF:

 Back When Back Then by Voices from the Middle
of Spring Street International School
April 2012

 Back When Back Then book launch and author event at Griffin Bay Bookstore, Friday Harbor, on Friday, April 13^th, at 7:00 p.m.

Back When Back Then is a stunning compilation of tell-all autobiographies by the writers of the Spring Street International Middle School, located in Friday Harbor Washington. This slim but piercingly honest volume will put to rest any doubts about bad things under the bed. A must-have tome on childrearing, this frank and adventurous collection demonstrates that parents who put the cookies on the top of the refrigerator have only themselves to blame.  Social anthropologists, lovers of poetry, sheep wranglers, rocket surgeons, people who have flying dreams, and anybody who was ever a kid, will swoon before the literary riches of this brilliantly crafted debut.

Advance praise for Back When Back Then:

“I laughed, I cried, I blew my nose.”
Louis O’ Prussack, Head of Spring Street International School

“I am obliged to say, with loathing verging on nausea, that these children are possessed of staggering, mind-befuddling genius.”
Severus Snape, Head of Hogwarts School

“Well this book is just splendid. And you know, children are the future. These are good children to have in the future, tomorrow. And that is why I sort of support schools. Remember, tomorrow is in the future, and it too will have children in it.”
Letter found in BTBW editor’s mailbox, signed “Barack Obama”

Excerpt from Back When Back Then:

When I was little I could not reach the candy on top of the refrigerator. They would put it up there in front of me, which to me kind of said, “Vida, here is a challenge for you.” Also, I liked to make plans. Here is how this one went. I would run into my room and yell, “There is a spider in here.” Then I would run out the back door and around into the kitchen. I had to work fast. I would grab the stools I needed, stack them up, climb, grab all the candy I could, hop back down, and rush outside to my tree-fort to pretend that I had been there for a long time. The problem was that nobody believed I didn’t take the candy because of how I was after I ate all the candy. Also, I didn’t put the stools back. Also, there was no spider. And then everybody including me had to wait while I ran around in circles and talked too fast.
Vida Wight, grade 6

The writers featured in Back When Back Then:

Dylan Allen
Diego Anderson
Lauren Ayers
Dylan Bienenstock
Jilly Brandli
Olin Carlson
Connor Dederich
Zach Fincher
Beatrice Grauman Boss
Emma Heikkinen
Uma Hu
Jacob Kaden
Madrona Jameson
Max Kessler
Quinn Lacrampe
Mark Mazzarella
Gene McCauley
Alifaire Noreen
Devin Oliver
Hailey Ott
Anamika Paulay
Emmie Reynolds
Gemma Richard
Maria Smith
Vida Wight

Copies of the limited first edition will be available for purchase by the general public starting Saturday, April 14^th, at Griffin Bay Bookstore, in Friday Harbor Washington.  Some of the writers might even be loitering around to autograph books, but if they ask for money or food, don’t give it to them.

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