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The Wednesday Wars
Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class has religious instruction. Mrs. Baker doesn't like Holling--he's sure of it. Why else would she make him read the plays of William Shakespeare outside class? But everyone has bigger things to worry about, like Vietnam. His father wants Holling and his sister to be on their best behavior: the success of his business depends on it. But how can Holling stay out of trouble when he has so much to contend with? A bully demanding cream puffs; angry rats; and a baseball hero signing autographs the very same night Holling has to appear in a play in yellow tights! As fate sneaks up on him again and again, Holling finds Motivation--the Big M--in the most unexpected places and musters up the courage to embrace his destiny, in spite of himself.
This book was funny and amusing. It kept a smile on my face the whole time, even though there were some serious moments. It was comically suspenseful and I would recommend this book anytime.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement. This book made me laugh and sometimes it did stay serious.
DeleteI agree with this. It had its funny moments and it does always make you want to smile and keep reading on.
DeleteI loved every second I spent reading this book. It was always the first thing I wanted to do. In school when i had to put it down to do classwork I was always thinking about it. I would definitely recommend this book to a friend.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably one of the best books that I have ever read. I got drawn into this book within the first few pages, and when I would set a limit on how much I would read, I would unknowingly raed way ahead.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement, this was a great book and it got me hooked instantly. I would read it at anytime of the day.
DeleteI went into this book thinking it was a little kids book for more of Elementary students. I was ,however, proved wrong very quickly. The book can speak to all audiences with detail that matches authors like James Patterson and Stephan King, you pick up the book and leave it feeling worried about tomorrows school day. Several times I had to rouse myself out of this imaginary world. To anyone that enjoys a bit of comedy with the "ooooooo" factor in it I would recommend this book 10/10. If you don't like all the drama it's still an enjoying book but, since I don't really enjoy drama I would rate this book an 8/10 either way this book is great and I suggest you read it.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first started reading this book I kept thinking to myself about how stupid this book sounded, but as I kept reading I found out I was incredibly wrong. This book was very amusing, funny, and intresting. I love the fact that the book had so many allusions. I would recomend this book to anyone who likes to laugh.
ReplyDeleteI thought this book would be a book for a little kid but, I quickly learned that it was a great book to read. I couldn't put the book down. I even read it on the weekend. It was a book that you might possibly could relate to and it gets you hooked instantly. It even had enough detail for me to imagine the scenes of the book. I recommend this book for other people to read.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first picked up this book I was expecting some immature random nonsense. But when I started to get to the parts with Shakespeare I realized that there was deeper meanings behind the rather bold comedic plot. I would recommend this for anyone, even if your not the deep thinking kind of person.
ReplyDeleteI agree and disagree with H1Calderon. The book did seem that it might be boring and imature nosence. When it started to bring up Shakespeare, it was interesting but didn't really make it deeper or enhance the book. The rising action of the plot is moving to slowing. I would not recommend this for sombody that like books with action in them.
DeleteThis book starts out verry slow moving. It dosen't use alot of figurative language skills. One thing make this book interesting. You never know how Mrs. Baker will react to something. I also lik how it kindof slips the historical fiction part in there. It is set during the 60's and the Vietnam War withc is pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteThis book was very comedic and interesting at the same time. Unlike most people, I thought this book was going to be a hilarious but fascinating read. Though, It did surprise me of how much shakespeare that was in this book. Overall, this book was highly fascinating but very hysterical. This was my favorite out of the three books. I give it an overall thumbs up.
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