Famous Children's Book Author Coming To Middletown Elementary

MIDDLETOWN, NJ — Nut Swamp Elementary in Middletown is proud to welcome Sarah Weeks, bestselling author of over 50 children’s books. Weeks is best known for the novel "So B. It," which is now a major motion picture.

Watch the trailer below. She is the winner of the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award and William Allen White Children's Book Award. Sarah will be in Middletown at Nut Swamp Elementary on Friday, January 19 talking to 580 students. Here's a summary of "So B. It:"

Although she lives an unconventional lifestyle with her mentally challenged mother and their doting neighbor, Bernadette, Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. When a mysterious word in her mother’s vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi’s thirst for the truth leads her on a cross country journey in search of the secrets of her past.

“A remarkable novel.”-New York Times Book Review.

In addition to writing, Sarah has been an adjunct faculty member in the prestigious Writing Program at the New School University in New York City for the past ten years. She is a founding member of ART, a traveling troupe of authors who perform reader’s theatre at conventions and conferences across the country. She lives in Nyack, NY.