The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
This was a good book that talked about the life of Holling Hoodhood. He was a seventh grade student in the year 1967 that had a teacher that hated him. What was different about his school was that on Wednesday’s afternoons half of the students went to temple and the other half went to catechism while Holling had to stay with his English teacher Mrs. Baker since he was Protestant. He believed that she hated him since she made him learn Shakespeare during the afternoons that they spent together. During his Wednesday sessions, he learned to like Shakespeare and actually understood it. This was great because it got him thinking about his own life and becoming a man. Holling’s parents were not that understanding or supportive of their children. Holling go to star in a play at school and became very fond of a girl named Meryl Lee with all of this going on in his life plus getting on the cross country team; he needed to start learning what life was all about. It is a great book to let middle school students read especially boys because it will give them a sense of purpose and help them find themselves.
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