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The Wednesday Wars

by Gary D. Schmidt

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Published
2007
Genre
Historical Fiction
Pages
264
Words
73675

Reading measures

Accelerated Reader level
5.9
AR interest level
MG — middle grades, 4–8
Lexile
990L
Suggested reading age
ages 10–13

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to religion classes, seventh-grader Holling stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of Shakespeare and he learns about the world he lives in.

Collections

ALSC Notables

ISBN

ISBN-13
9780618724833
ISBN-10
0618724834

Tags

ALSC NotablesCommunity Life-SchoolFamily Life-Coming of AgeHistorical FictionHistory-1960sHistory-Vietnam War EraPeople-TeachersRealistic FictionShakespeare