The Wednesday wars
Gary D. Schmidt.
- New York : Sandpiper ; Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
- 264 p. ; 20 cm.
"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.
Newbery Honor, 2008.
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