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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“Why don't you go out for lunch recess?” said Mrs. Baker to me. “Everyone else is gone.” I held up English for You and Me. “I thought I'd read in here,” I said. “Go out for recess,” she said, criminal intent gleaming in her eyes.
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 at all. That was the end of the soccer game, except that Danny Hupfer—a very ...
Which it really needed, since once air reached the Coat Room, it landed on all the stuff from all the lunches that had been chucked into the corners because they were too vile to eat even when they were fresh. Lunches like liverwurst ...
... and of vanilla cream, and of powdered sugar, still drifting in the heated air. And stretched out on the long tables, far from Whatever Surprise was being fed to Camillo Junior High for lunch that day, were a dozen trays of cream ...
It took me the rest of lunch recess to carry the trays—one at a time—up to the classroom. Mrs. Baker smiled sweetly as I brought each one in. “Place them on the shelf by the windows. The cool air will keep them from getting soggy.
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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