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  <title>The Wednesday Wars</title>
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    <body><![CDATA[What an amazing book!  I had no idea what to expect from this book.  I knew that it was a relatively new book and that it had won a Newberry Honor.  For me a Newberry either means that it is a really good book or that it is really boring.  This book was not boring.   I felt drawn into Holling Hoodhood's world of 1967, his life as a Jr. High student during the Vietnam war complete with bullies and dittos.  Ah, those blue inky dittos...  The relationships in the book were well developed especially the growing relationship between Holling and Mrs. Baker and the strained relationship between Holling and his father.<br/><br/>I love that one of the characters was always referred to as &quot;Doug Swieteck's brother.&quot;  And that Holling keeps saying to the readers &quot;and let me tell you...&quot; The stories of Shakespeare interspersed into the plot were what drew me to this book in the first place.  I was not disappointed in how Shakespeare was intertwined into this book.  As Mrs Baker assigns Holling new Shakespeare plays to read each month, Holling finds that the stories relate to what is going on in his life.  Love it! ]]></body>
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