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Clarion
June 2007
On Sale: May 21, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 0618724834
EAN: 9780618724833
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Non-Fiction
Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero in THE
WEDNESDAY WARS—a wonderfully witty and compelling novel
about a teenage boy’s mishaps and adventures over the
course of the 1967–68 school year. Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior
High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher,
Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class has religious
instruction. Mrs. Baker doesn’t like Holling—he’s sure of
it. Why else would she make him read the plays of William
Shakespeare outside class? But everyone has bigger things
to worry about, like Vietnam. His father wants Holling and
his sister to be on their best behavior: the success of his
business depends on it. But how can Holling stay out of
trouble when he has so much to contend with? A bully
demanding cream puffs; angry rats; and a baseball hero
signing autographs the very same night Holling has to
appear in a play in yellow tights! As fate sneaks up on him
again and again, Holling finds Motivation—the Big M—in the
most unexpected places and musters up the courage to
embrace his destiny, in spite of himself.
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