In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero*.

    “The Wednesday Wars” is a wonderfully witty* and compelling* story about a teenage boy’s mishaps* and adventures* over the course of the 1967–68 school year.

    Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class has religious* instruction.

    Mrs. Baker doesn’t like Hoodhood — he’s sure of it. Why else would she make him read the plays of William Shakespeare outside class? But everyone has bigger things to worry about, like Vietnam.

    His father wants Hoodhood and his sister to be on their best behavior: the success of his business depends on it. But how can Hoodhood stay out of trouble when he has so much to fight with?

    A bully* demanding cream puffs*; angry rats; and a baseball hero signing autographs* the very same night Hoodhood has to appear in a play in yellow tights!

    As fate sneaks up on* him again and again, Hoodhood finds Motivation — the Big M — in the most unexpected places and musters up the courage* to embrace* his destiny, in spite of himself.

    The Chinese version of the book is available on dangdang.com, and you can find the English book on amazon.(SD-Agencies)