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The Wednesday wars

Author: Gary D Schmidt
Publisher: Boston ; New York : Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2007] ©2007
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
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Genre/Form: History
Fiction
Juvenile works
Juvenile fiction
Named Person: William Shakespeare
Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Gary D Schmidt
ISBN: 9780547237602 054723760X
OCLC Number: 779046029
Awards: Newbery Medal Honor Book 2008.
Description: 264 pages ; 24 cm
Responsibility: by Gary D. Schmidt.
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During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

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