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| Original Title: | The Wednesday Wars |
| ISBN: | 0618724834 (ISBN13: 9780618724833) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | United States of America New York State(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal Nominee (2008), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2009), California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Middle School/Junior High (2010), Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature (2008), Society of Midland Authors Award for Children's Fiction (2008) Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2010) |
Gary D. Schmidt
Hardcover | Pages: 264 pages Rating: 4.08 | 35067 Users | 5866 Reviews
Present Containing Books The Wednesday Wars
| Title | : | The Wednesday Wars |
| Author | : | Gary D. Schmidt |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 264 pages |
| Published | : | May 21st 2007 by Clarion Books |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade. Realistic Fiction |
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In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy’s mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967–68 school year in Long Island, New York.Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class has religious instruction. Mrs. Baker doesn’t like Holling—he’s sure of it. Why else would she make him read the plays of William Shakespeare outside class? But everyone has bigger things to worry about, like Vietnam. His father wants Holling and his sister to be on their best behavior: the success of his business depends on it. But how can Holling stay out of trouble when he has so much to contend with? A bully demanding cream puffs; angry rats; and a baseball hero signing autographs the very same night Holling has to appear in a play in yellow tights! As fate sneaks up on him again and again, Holling finds Motivation—the Big M—in the most unexpected places and musters up the courage to embrace his destiny, in spite of himself.
Rating Containing Books The Wednesday Wars
Ratings: 4.08 From 35067 Users | 5866 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books The Wednesday Wars
When a teacher makes you read Shakespeare outside of school, you know she hates you. Throw in some cream puffs and a couple of demented rats, and, well, you have the beginning of a very interesting school year. Plus theres a war going on that is making things rather complicated. So Holling Hoodhood isnt exactly looking forward to the upcoming year. The Wednesday Wars is a highly amusing coming-of-age story that manages to teach some good lessens in between the laughs. I found it reallyIn the year of 1967, Holling HoodHood is entering the seventh grade and notices that his English teacher Mrs. Baker hates him. She tries her best to make his life miserable, but with his Dad's Architect firm HoodHood and Associates vying to get the contract for her family's Sporting goods store, all Holling can do is grin and bear it even when she tortures him with Shakespeare. Will he survive? Read on and find out for yourself.This was a pretty good audiobook that I borrowed from my local
Another reviewer mentioned that this book shows that it was written by a Baby Boomer, and I had the exact same thought while reading. My parents were exactly the age of the protagonist in 1968, and while they remember where they were when they heard MKL Jr had been assassinated, the stories they tell about junior high are all about normal life, not what Walter Cronkite was saying about the Viet Cong on the evening news. I mean, I bet American history teachers everywhere are assigning this to
this is my second book for the readventurer challenge.this book is very...sweet. and ordinarily,a sweet book would make me feel like i had chiggers or something else foul crawling under my skin, and its earnest gee-whizzery would make me feel unclean just because of my mental rolodex of words that are more satisfying to say in moments of astonishment or crisis than "gee whiz."but this one was different. this one was entirely wholesome, yeah, but wholesome and satisfying like fresh-baked bread,
This book is a heartwarming mix of nostalgia, life lessons, beauty, and awkward humor with a nice side of brownlightperfect cream puffs. And let me tell you; its really swell.Holling Hoodhood is the only kid in the seventh grade who doesnt have to attend either Temple or Catechism on Wednesday afternoons. No, instead he gets to spend every single Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Baker, who hates his guts. Each Wednesday she finds new ways to torture him: endless cleaning of chalkboard erasers,
A Review in Two PartsPart OneAriel, recommended this book to me, and she wrote a fine good review of the book. You can find it by clicking on her name. I really liked the book, but didn't love it. I think the things I didn't love about the book were me being a crank. For example, the myopic narrator view point of a seventh grader was great; it caught the distortions that a kid sees the world through and the way teachers and others outside of their own circle are depersonalized into roles
I understand your critique, but I feel these things may be fun or educational for younger students
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