It's 1967 and Holling Hoodhood is not having a good year. Not only is Vietnam and hippies on his mind, he has started the seventh grade and he knows his teacher, Mrs. Baker, is secretly out to get him. What other possible reason would she have to make him read Shakespeare outside of class? In addition, his father is pressuring him to be on his best behavior because the future of Hoodhood & Associates depends on it. But trouble from rats, cream puffs, bullies, and costumes with tights is making it very difficult. Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt is both comical and gripping, unpretentious and over-the-top, and basically unforgettable. Holling Hoodhood is a kid, an unlikely hero from the suburbs, that you won't soon forget.