What a fellow Holling Woodwood is! The teacher hated him on the first day of seventh grade. Just think, he makes me read Shakespeare after school! But parents don’t pay any attention to Holling’s complaints. They already have something to worry about: it’s happening in 1967 - there’s the war in Vietnam, political unrest, and the business of the father-architect, which seems to have gone uphill, but competitors are breathing in their backs... If only they could get an order for the project of a new school building, the same one where my son studies! And Holling had an amazing year - he tested the reliability of his friends, played in a play, became disillusioned with his idols, overcame himself and his fears, found a common language with his older sister, fell in love... Holling grew up. “Wednesday Battles” is an exciting and witty story about life of a teenager during one school year. How many discoveries, it turns out, can fit into ten months: escaped rats are not scary, Shakespeare is not boring, an older sister is very important. And also the arrival of a favorite baseball player, a role in a play and first love. And all this against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, because it’s 1967. Gary Schmidt was awarded the Newbery Award for this book.