Surviving Middle School by David McGrail

I love writing, and before I knew it, I had a good chunk of the raw material for the first book. One day, I plucked a few of the more thought-provoking dilemmas from the journal and started expanding on those. Some of the stories they come home with are absolutely hilarious, while others are outright disturbing. I keep a daily journal about what’s going on in our girls’ lives, assuming I can get more than “Fine” out of them at dinner. What inspired your Surviving Middle School books? Here, McGrail-a lawyer and father of two-shares how these survival guides came to be. It is estimated that over 10.8 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Sound - killing 100,000 to 250,000 seabirds, over 2,800 sea otters, about 12 river otters, 300 harbor seals, 247 bald eagles, and 22 orcas - as well as an unknown number of salmon and herring.Which is why Dave McGrail ’97 created Surviving Middle School, a pair of interactive “Choose Your Own Adventure”-style books-one for girls, one for boys-that allow preteens to see where their decisions could lead. The oil would eventually contaminate more than a thousand miles of coastline. In 1989, in the year of Lydia J Mcgrail's passing, on March 24th, the Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker, struck a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and oil began spilling out of the hold. In 1974, when she was 60 years old, on February 5th, Patty Hearst, age 19 - granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst and daughter of publisher of the San Francisco Examiner Randolph Hearst - was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a left wing terrorist group. Previously the Vice President to President Eisenhower, Nixon was the only President to resign in office - in his second term. Nixon became the 37th President of the United States.

In 1969, when she was 55 years old, on January 20th, Richard M. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933.

In 1934, when she was 20 years old, on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. and on it went until most of the world was embroiled in the war. Other major powers took sides - and World War I began: Austria declared war on Serbia Germany on Russia and France Britain on Germany. Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to Serbia. In 1914, in the year that Lydia J Mcgrail was born, in June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Yugoslavian national. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Lydia's lifetime.

Surviving Middle School by David McGrail