The Wednesday Wars: A Newbery Honor Award WinnerIn 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, during the school year 1968-69. |
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She asked this kind of hopefully. I shook my head again. “So on Wednesday afternoon you attend neither Hebrew School nor Catechism.” I nodded. “You are here with me.” “I guess,” I said. Mrs. Baker looked hard at me.
“Keep them that way,” he said. This wasn't exactly what I had hoped for in an ally. There was only my sister left. To ask your big sister to be your ally is like asking Nova Scotia to go into battle ...
So I asked Meryl Lee Kowalski, who has been in love with me since she first laid eyes on me in the third grade—I'm just saying what she told me—I asked her to open my desk first. “How come?” she said. Sometimes even true love can be ...
I almost asked for her rain hat. You never know what might come in handy when something awful is about to happen to you. Then, as if the Dread Day of Doom and Disaster had come to Camillo Junior High, I heard, “Hey, Hoodhood!
Mrs. Sidman asked, and held on to his arm. He nodded once, then threw up on her. He had eaten a liverwurst-and-egg sandwich for lunch. No one ever wants to see a liverwurst-and-egg sandwich twice. And Mrs. Sidman's rain hat did not help ...
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LibraryThing Review
Ulasan Pengguna - Dairyqueen84 - LibraryThingAll of the events in the book had almost a too perfect resolution. It was a bit hard to believe that a 7th grader would read and understand Shakespeare without some guidance. Were kids smarter in 1968? The parents were a horror show in their absence from their kids lives. Baca ulasan lengkap
LibraryThing Review
Ulasan Pengguna - ms_rowse - LibraryThingLove love love this book. I want to be Mrs. Baker--she is the perfect teacher. Nice coming-of-age story...if Holling Hoodhood (the protagonist) was older, I'd lobby to teach this instead of Catcher in the Rye. Way more hopeful but with similar themes. Loved it! Baca ulasan lengkap