The Wednesday wars
by Gary D. Schmidt
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During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
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Juvenile Fiction, Historical Fiction, Bildungsroman, Newbery Honor, Children's fiction, Plays, fiction, Schools, fiction, Family life, fiction, Long island (n.y.), fiction, nyt:paperback-books=2009-07-05, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Bildungsromans, Junior high schools, Juvenile fiction, Schools, Families, History, Fiction, Coming of age, Family life, Écoles secondaires, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Écoles, Familles, Histoire, award:Newbery_award, lexile:990, lexile_range:901-1000, age:min:10, age:max:12, grade:min:5, grade:max:7| Edition | Availability |
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The Wednesday Wars
Jan 10, 2019, Thorndike Press Large Print
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The Wednesday wars
2008, Scholastic, Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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Originally published: New York : Clarion Books, 2007.
Newbery Honor Book, 2008.
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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.
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