The Wednesday Wars

The Wednesday Wars
ISBN-10
0618724834
ISBN-13
9780618724833
Category
Juvenile Fiction
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Gary D. Schmidt

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 muchof value about the world he lives in.

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