Confessions from the Principal's Chair - Hardcover

When Anna Myers was finishing the first grade she announced to her family that instead of graduating to second grade, she would spend the next year teaching the little first graders. Though she didn't begin her teaching career at 7, she did at 22, and taught teenagers her entire life. Anna is the author of more than one dozen books for Walker & Company, including Tulsa Burning, a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, Flying Blind, an Oklahoma Book Award finalist, and Assassin, an Oklahoma Book Award winner. This is her first foray into contemporary humor. Anna lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her husband John. Visit her Web site at www.annamyers.info.

I was about to get stuck in some brand-new school.  I rolled myself into a fetal position (I read that in a book), you know, like a baby in the womb.  I remembered what it had been like when I started middle school, me not knowing anyone from before and walking down those halls all alone.  In elementary school, the halls had been friendly, even in new schools, but I can tell you middle schools do not have friendly halls.  In elementary, the halls are all decorated with frogs and rabbits and pictures of presidents and stuff.  Not in middle school.  Those halls are like prison halls, except I guess they don't have lockers in prisons.  Anyway, I've never seen any lockers in prison movies, but I can tell you that the eyes that watch you in middle school halls are just as unfriendly as the eyes of all those murderers, rapists, and thieves.  Those eyes (you know, at middle school) are as cold as the steel the lockers are made from.  Wait a minute, I'm not sure that the lockers are made of steel.  Maybe they are tin, but then, I guess you get the point about how cold the eyes were when I started middle school.