The Wednesday Wars, (Paperback)

from ChandlerF1

The Wednesday Wars is a practically flawless book that had me alternately in spasms of hysterical laughter and reaching for a wad of tissues. It seamlessly blends the dramas of the seventh grade with the harsh and frightening adult world at the height of the Vietnam War. The story follows Holling...

from ctpress

Seventh-grader on a Long Island school Holling Hoodhood have to remain at school every wednesday with Mrs. Baker, the English teacher. He's the only Presbyterian in class - the other kids are Catholic or Jewish and have to go attend Catechism or Hebrew School. Mrs. Baker begins to teach him Shake...

from Whisper1

Have you ever read a book wherein you cried from one sentence, and then laughed at the next? Have you ever read a book wherein you simply did not want it to end? Have you ever read a book wherein the characters were so beautifully portrayed that you wanted them as real-life friends? Have you ever...

from CBJames

The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt presents a humorous look at a year in the life of seventh grader Holling Hoodhood. The year is 1967; social turmoil rages across America, the war in Vietnam is reaching a turning point, but back home Holling Hoodhood has to face the venom of his English teacher,...

from lrobe190

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. This...