Thursday, July 14, 2011

The Wednesday Wars


by Gary D. Schmidt
Lexile: 990
Genre: Historical Fiction

"Of all the kids in the seventh grade at Camillo Junior High School, there was one kid that Mrs. Baker hated with heat whiter than sun. Me." And so begins Holling Hoodhood's journey through 7th grade. What starts out as a seemingly unbearable year, turns out to be rather extraordinary in many ways as Holling learns about who he is as a person during a time of turmoil in U.S. History.

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