The Readers
By Camilla Garrison
Camilla and Isaac Garrison recently completed the RIMSBA (Rhode Island Middle School Book Award) and RICBA (Rhode Island Children's Book Award) challenges for the Grace School. A group in Rhode Island give out awards to twenty YA and Children's books.
At the Grace School, kids from third to fifth grade read and write sixteen essays for a trophy reward and also a school sleepover (which was last night.) If they read and write all twenty though, they can get and extra surprise present.
Kids sixth to eighth grade read and write essays for ten books to get twenty five dollars on a gift card for a field trip to the Providence Place Mall which was last Monday. If they read all twenty books, they get forty five dollars instead.
Last night Isaac Garrison attended the annual RICBA sleepover. "The sleepover was good. It was very stressful trying to finish all twenty books in the last two weeks on the challenge, but that was kinda my fault since I had months to do it." Isaac says At the sleepover, the school had activities like swimming in the pool, gymnastics in the gym and trivia in the cafeteria. For dinner the kids had tacos, pizza, soda and other junk. Dessert was ice cream with every kind of topping. They watched a movie in the library before a late night pillow fight until Isaac threw up after one too many sodas and went home at midnight-ish.
Monday was the RIMSBA field trip to the mall it was a bit chaotic up in middle school, because somehow they had to get approximately thirty kids out of the building in two vans since the school had the bright idea to sell the bus. Camilla Garrison was on the second van of the second trip. A little after she had arrived at the mall, Hannah Garrison got a call from the principal Ms. Bocanfuso who said "Your daughter has been in a car accident." understandably, Hannah promptly panicked.
At about eleven thirty, the van was parking outside the mall, everyone was chatting excitedly, until they heard a long scratching from outside. You see it is very hard to park a long vehicle and even more so if one is pregnant, so as the driver Ms. Scarpula was parking, she hit the headlight and door of a small white car behind the space in which she was trying to park making a small scratch. Once it was properly parked everybody got out of the car, and while the librarian Ms. Wendy was trying to get everybody to go inside and Ms. Scarpula was calling the school and trying to sort everything out, as Camilla and her classmate Suri were trying to look at the damage, they spotted a middle aged man carrying his food into the road, and it sort of looked like he was heading to the small white car next to them. It turns out he was, and from what Milla's heard from the teachers gossip, he was not very nice on a Monday morning to this pregnant lady driving a bus full of children, but we think it all got sorted out eventually.
As for the rest of the trip, it went pretty well, Camilla's group went to the candy store, the jewelry store, the make-up store, and her favorite: the food court where they got burgers, fries and milkshakes.