It’s not just about the slow recognition that Mrs. It’s not just about his quiet town and the contrast with the distant (and sometimes not so distant) turbulance of the Vietnam War. It’s not just about Holling realizing that his dad is deeply flawed and maybe it’s because, like Shylock, it’s just what is expected of him. Hoodhood just so happens to be an architect.Įven now having read it twice and laboring over this review for days, I can’t find any good way to sum up this book. Baker because her family owns the Baker Sports Emporium which is currently looking for an architecture firm to design a new building. His father is insistent that he not anger Mrs. Baker decides they will spend their afternoons together studying Shakespeare obviously she hates his guts. See, every Wednesday afternoon the Jewish and Catholic kids in his class go off to their respective religious classes Holling is the lone Presbyterian and so he’s left behind at the school.

He is convinced his seventh grade teacher, Mrs. The hero of the story is Holling Hoodhood. The Wednesday Wars has everything – humor, tragedy, friendship, sports, school, family, and even a tiny bit of romance. The Wednesday Wars is a book I want to shout about, a book that moves me to tears with its sweetness and then makes me laugh seconds later. So I reread it (this time listening to it on CD), wondering if it would still be any good and discovered that if anything, I loved it more this time around. I read Wednesday Wars last year and meant to write about it for weeks, but I could never quite get my mind around what to say about it and eventually it had been six months and then a year since I’d read it and some of the details were starting to escape me. Story Summary: Characters/Plot/Setting: Graphic OrganizerĬomparing Two Characters: Graphic OrganizerĬomparing Two Characters: Holling and Mrs.1 0 of 10: As good a book as you could find anywhere, The Wednesday Wars is the book I would give to every person I know.Ī few weeks, while we were in Utah, Bart’s dad asked me to give him a list of five really great YA/children books. You can copy as an entire packet or you can copy pages individually! This can be for a small book club, or for the whole class! Schmidt! There are many ways that you can use these resources.

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