The Wednesday wars / Gary D. Schmidt.
Material type:
TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2009], ©2007.Description: 264 pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780547237602
- 054723760X
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays -- Juvenile fiction
- Junior high schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Long Island (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Newbery Honor, 2008
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | SCHMIDT GARY D. | Available | 2008 Newbery Honor Book | 33111009660578 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt tells the witty and compelling story of a teenage boy who feels that fate has it in for him.
Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn't happy. He is sure his new teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates his guts. Throughout the school year, Holling strives to get a handle on the Shakespeare plays Mrs. Baker assigns him to read on his own time, and to figure out the enigmatic Mrs. Baker. At home, Holling's domineering father is obsessed with his business image and disregards his family.
As the Vietnam War turns lives upside down, Holling comes to admire and respect both Shakespeare and Mrs. Baker, who have more to offer him than he imagined. And when his family is on the verge of coming apart, he also discovers his loyalty to his sister, and his ability to stand up to his father when it matters most.
Each month in Holling's tumultuous seventh-grade year is a chapter in this quietly powerful coming-of-age novel set in suburban Long Island during the late '60s.
990 Lexile.
Originally published in hardcover by Clarion, 2007.
"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."--Title page verso.
Newbery Honor, 2008
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 5.9 12 Quiz 114653 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available.