http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v65/i12/p51_s1?bypassSSO=1"The Transition School at the University of Washington each year offers courses to as many as 16 talented middle school students to prepare them for direct entry into university classes. Among those offerings is a one-year, algebra-based, introductory physics course that was taught by Ernest Henley and the late J. Gregory Dash. The contents of that course now appear as a short textbook, Physics Around Us: How and Why Things Work."
The reviewer pans the book for having too many errors and recommends instead the OpenStax College Physics book
http://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics .
The Transition School is described at
https://depts.washington.edu/cscy/programs/early-entrance-program/transition-school/ .
