The Wednesday Wars: A Newbery Honor Award WinnerHarperCollins, 18 Mei 2009 - 288 halaman 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, during the school year 1968-69. |
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... looked at me. She hated my guts. We spent the afternoon with English for You and Me, learning how to diagram sentences—as if there was some reason why anyone in the Western Hemisphere needed to know how to do this. One by one, Mrs ...
... looked down at his form again. “But Holling,” said Mr. Guareschi, “we do have a problem here. This form says that you passed sixth-grade mathematics—though with a decidedly below-average grade.” “Yes,” I said. Of course I passed sixth ...
... looked up at me. “Regrettable.” She said all four syllables very slowly. She could probably diagram each one if she wanted to. I watched her carefully for the rest of the day, but nothing ever gave away her murderous intentions. She ...
... tiles and straightening Thorndike dictionaries? No, I didn't. Not once. Not even when I looked out the clean lower windows as the afternoon light of autumn changed to mellow and full yellows, and the air turned so 24 The Wednesday Wars.
... looked like those evil geniuses who suddenly figure out a plan to conquer the world and can already imagine earth's population quivering in their grasp. It was all I could do not to sprint out of Mrs. Baker's classroom—even though we ...