The Wednesday Wars

A Newbery Honor Award Winner

By: Gary D Schmidt

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Hardcover | 21 May 2007

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Hardcover
272 Pages

Age
10 - 12

Grade
5 - 7

Dimensions(cm)
23.5 x 15.88 x 1.91

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Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero in THE WEDNESDAY WARS--a wonderfully witty and compelling novel about a teenage boy's mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967-68 school year.
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.

Industry Reviews

"Schmidt makes the implausible believable and the everyday momentous. A gentle, hopeful, moving story." -- Booklist (starred review)

"Schmidt, whose Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy won both Printz and Newbery Honors, delivers another winner. Deeply satisfying." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Schmidt [gets] to the emotional heart of every scene without overstatement. Another virtuoso turn by the author of Lizzie Bright." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Schmidt rises above the novel's conventions to create memorable and believable characters." -- Horn Book (starred review)

"One of my favorite books of the year." -- New York Times

"A graceful novel full of goodwill, yearning and heart." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"An entertaining and nuanced novel. There are laugh-out-loud moments that leaven the many poignant ones." -- School Library Journal

"An accessible, humorous school story, and at the same time, an insightful coming-of-age tale." -- BookPage

"Fans of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy may be pleasantly surprised to see Schmidt's lighter, even sillier side." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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