Holling's life is "perfect." Well, from the outside at least. When you look inside, you realize that everything is a tick off. His sister is pretty much a hippie, his father only cares about his job, his mother is hiding the fact that she smokes, and his seventh grade teacher hates him! The Wednesday Wars is a light, comical, fun lookout on the life of a screwed up teenager, Holling Hoodhood. In the beginning of the book, Holling introduces his idea that his teacher wants to kill him. He then notes that all the kids in his class will be at either Ctachaism or Hebrew school on Wednesday after noons. Since Holling is neither Catholic nor Jewish, he will be the only student in his class that is in school from 1:45 to 3:00 on Wednesday afternoons. Holling has a feeling that his teacher is not so happy that she can't leave until three...
The first week is full of Shakespeare. Although Holling thinks that his teacher is trying to bore him too death, he finds Shakespeare to be okay, at best. I will report next week with more. Until then,
Jocelyn.
P.S. Sorry about the confusing change in books. I commented on Maille's blog.
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