책 소개

• 2008 뉴베리 수상작. 수요일 오후마다 담임 선생님과 단 둘만의 시간을 보내야 하는 주인공이 '선생님이 자신을 죽도록 지겹도록 만들 작정'으로 건넨 셰익스피어의 책들을 읽으면서 점차 성장해 나가는 과정이 재미있게 그려진 교재입니다. 이 시대 최고의 성장 소설이라 찬사를 받았습니다.

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 in Long Island, New York.

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 Holling?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 Holling and his sister to be on their best behavior: the success of his business depends on it. But how can Holling stay out of trouble when he has so much to contend with? A bully demanding cream puffs; angry rats; and a baseball hero signing autographs the very same night Holling has to appear in a play in yellow tights! As fate sneaks up on him again and again, Holling finds Motivation?the Big M?in the most unexpected places and musters up the courage to embrace his destiny, in spite of himself.