TY - BOOK AU - Schmidt,Gary D. TI - The Wednesday wars SN - 978-0-545-10562-0 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic Inc KW - Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 KW - Coming of age KW - Fiction KW - Junior high schools KW - Schools KW - Family life KW - Long Island (N.Y.) KW - History KW - 20th century N2 - 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 ER -