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shaun11 's review for:
The Wednesday Wars
by Gary D. Schmidt
This book is so well written. Any book that makes me laugh out loud AND choke up with tears is an automatic 5 stars from me. I adored this book from the first to last page. No paragraph is wasted - humour, horror, heartbreak, hope - from conversations to activities, Schmidt extracts every drop of potential from the world he has recreated. And he has somehow done this without a heavy hand.
To describe the plot makes this book sound like a redundant coming of age story that is just a rehash of The Wonder Years. But Fred Savage never had it so good (or bad!). I truly felt 12 years old while reading this book - suffering through the humiliations and triumphs of adolescence all over again (I'm 32). This is a must read.
To describe the plot makes this book sound like a redundant coming of age story that is just a rehash of The Wonder Years. But Fred Savage never had it so good (or bad!). I truly felt 12 years old while reading this book - suffering through the humiliations and triumphs of adolescence all over again (I'm 32). This is a must read.