The Wednesday wars
By: by Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Scholastic; Clarion Books; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780545105620; 9780545178136
Subjects: Families; Juvenile fiction; Family life; Fiction; Coming of age; Junior high schools; Schools; Plays (Shakespeare, William); History
Description: 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 classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Clarion Books, 2007.

Newbery Honor Book, 2008.