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Las Guerras de Los Mircoles / The Wednesday Wars
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Holling Hoodhood est en problemas. Acaba de comenzar el sptimo grado con la seora Baker, y presiente que la maestra tiene algo en su contra. Por qu otra razn lo hara leer a Shakespeare fuera del horario de clases? Es el ao 1967, y todo el mundo tiene cosas ms importantes de qu preocuparse. Por un lado, est Vietnam, y por otro est el negocio familiar. Segn el padre de Holling, nada es ms importante que el negocio familiar. De hecho, todos los Hoodhood tienen que comportarse siempre lo mejor posible: el xito de Hoodhood y Asociados depende de ello. Pero cmo puede Holling evitar los problemas si tiene que lidiar con la seora Baker? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt tells the witty and compelling story of a teenage boy who feels that fate has it in for him. Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn't happy. He is sure his new teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates his guts. Throughout the school year, Holling strives to get a handle on the Shakespeare plays Mrs. Baker assigns him to read on his own time, and to figure out the enigmatic Mrs. Baker. At home, Holling's domineering father is obsessed with his business image and disregards his family. As the Vietnam War turns lives upside down, Holling comes to admire and respect both Shakespeare and Mrs. Baker, who have more to offer him than he imagined. And when his family is on the verge of coming apart, he also discovers his loyalty to his sister, and his ability to stand up to his father when it matters most. Each month in Holling's tumultuous seventh-grade year is a chapter in this quietly powerful coming-of-age novel set in suburban Long Island during the late '60s.
Holling Hoodhood est en problemas. Acaba de comenzar el sptimo grado con la seora Baker, y presiente que la maestra tiene algo en su contra. Por qu otra razn lo hara leer a Shakespeare fuera del horario de clases? Es el ao 1967, y todo el mundo tiene cosas ms importantes de qu preocuparse. Por un lado, est Vietnam, y por otro est el negocio familiar. Segn el padre de Holling, nada es ms importante que el negocio familiar. De hecho, todos los Hoodhood tienen que comportarse siempre lo mejor posible: el xito de Hoodhood y Asociados depende de ello. Pero cmo puede Holling evitar los problemas si tiene que lidiar con la seora Baker? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt tells the witty and compelling story of a teenage boy who feels that fate has it in for him. Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn't happy. He is sure his new teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates his guts. Throughout the school year, Holling strives to get a handle on the Shakespeare plays Mrs. Baker assigns him to read on his own time, and to figure out the enigmatic Mrs. Baker. At home, Holling's domineering father is obsessed with his business image and disregards his family. As the Vietnam War turns lives upside down, Holling comes to admire and respect both Shakespeare and Mrs. Baker, who have more to offer him than he imagined. And when his family is on the verge of coming apart, he also discovers his loyalty to his sister, and his ability to stand up to his father when it matters most. Each month in Holling's tumultuous seventh-grade year is a chapter in this quietly powerful coming-of-age novel set in suburban Long Island during the late '60s.
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$12.95