Focusing on genres such as flash poetry, enviro adventures, food, and songwriting, this year's anthology is approachable from nearly all angles. With all of the crazy happenings in this book, you'll be glad to hear that the publishers have also included a survival guide to the great Pacific Northwest. Hear songs about fat cats and first days of school, fifty-two or so statistics about Spokane, and poetry on Martian rocks.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “What lemonade is to sunshine, books are to rain—the perfect complement. This fact, understood by all Pacific Northwesteners, is the driving force behind What to Read in the Rain, the annual story compilation published by Seattle's award-winning youth writing and tutoring center The Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas. In this book you'll find a cornucopia of stories from an array of writers. Many of these writers are young students in the Bureau's writing work-shops. Others are adult authors and friends of BFI, including Tom Robbins, Chelsea Cain, Davy Rothbart, Lauren Weedman, and Jess Walter. All of the book's writers brilliantly attack this year's theme: Adventure Stories! They cover everything from breaking out of classrooms and hiking mountains to revisiting the Titanic and ‘sailing the high seas of book piracy.’”