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LWolf

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Thu Oct-29-09 08:28 AM
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29. I'm reading a stack of books

for my classroom library. Last night I read "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary Schmidt.

It was much better than I expected. I expected the usual slapstick physical comedy and social posturing popular with pre- and adolescent boys, and got...

some really, really funny physical and social comedy

Shakespeare

characters growing and changing

nostalgia for the 60s that the book is set in

family, community, and school dynamics and dysfunctions played poignantly.

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