The Wednesday wars: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
School stories, War stories, Humourous fiction, Historical fiction, General fiction, Family stories, Multi-cultural fiction, Police and military, War, Drama, General non-fiction
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Summary
Long Island, 1967. Seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood knows that Mrs. Baker "hates his guts" because she would have Wednesday afternoons free if he went to catechism or Hebrew school like his classmates. Mrs. Baker worries about her husband in Vietnam and… introduces a reluctant Holling to Shakespeare. For grades 5-8. Newbery Honor. 2007