The Wednesday wars
Record details
- ISBN: 054723760X
- ISBN: 9780547237602
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Physical Description:
264 p. ; 20 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2009], c2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Sandpiper." Originally published in hardcover by Clarion, 2007. |
Summary, etc.: | "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 classrooom, where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in."--T.p. verso. |
Awards Note: | Newbery Honor Book, 2008. Nutmeg Award Nominee, Teen, 2011. |
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Genre: | Bildungsromans. |
Topic Heading: | YA-Bentley Memorial Library. SPP8 |
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Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | J SCHMIDT (Text) | 33750000071023 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | YA PBK FIC Sch (Text) | 33160114359709 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | TEEN F SCHMIDT (Text) | 34030117380425 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | TEEN F SCHMIDT (Text) | 34030119844725 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
East Side Branch - Bridgeport | YAPB SCHMIDT (Text) | 34000075163832 | Young Adult Paperback | Available | - |
Franklin Elementary School | FIC SCH (Text) | 30206000089349 | Fiction | Available | - |
Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | J PB SCHMIDT (Text) | 31953001881500 | Juvenile Paperback | Available | - |
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Newfield Branch - Bridgeport | YA SCHMIDT (Text) | 34000075163808 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
The Wednesday Wars : A Newbery Honor Award Winner
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The Wednesday Wars : A Newbery Honor Award Winner
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.