About this title: A Newbery Honor book, this wonderfully witty and compelling novel chronicles a teenage boy's mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967-1968 school year.
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Description: Good. 0618724834 Ex-library book with stickers and stampings. Overall good condition with clean text and good binding unless otherwise noted. Most items ship within 24 hours. read more
Description: Good. 0618724834 Hardcover with moderate shelf-wear, chipping and bumping to dust jacket cover, board edges, and spine. Binding is tight and square. Inside pages are free from underlining, note taking, and/or highlighting. ELIGIBLE FOR! Buy with confidence. Please leave feedback after your purchase. It helps other buyers know we are a responsible and reliable seller. Thank you! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sandpiper
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780547237602ISBN:054723760X
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Description: Schmidt, Gary D., Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin Co. ), 2007, c2007, 1st Edition, 1st printing, cloth (hard cover), fine with very near fine dj, 264 pp, tall 8vo, ISBN: 9780618724833, 'Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero in Holling Hoodhood, a kid from the suburbs who embraces his destiny in spite of himself', Newbery Honor book. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarion Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780618724833ISBN:0618724834
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarion Books
Date Published: 2007-05-21
ISBN-13:9780618724833ISBN:0618724834
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Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarion Books, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780618724833ISBN:0618724834
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Octavo 6" x 9" Signed. [CH]. 264 pp. Hardcover, bound in gray boards with dustwrapper. Signed by the author twice on the title page, once under his name, once with the inscription "Hope for days of peace! " read more
"Wow and Wow! The first thing about this book: The main character and first person narrator is named Holling Hoodhood. If you read the name with the last name backwards it brings to mind something that will delight most seventh graders (and all of the members of my family). This book was laugh-aloud funny (I have to think the author had a lot of fun writing it) and misty-eyed poignant. And I loved that I could relate to it so well on a personal level because it was written about a seventh grade boy in 1967 (I believe I was in sixth grade that year). The atomic bomb head-under-the desk drills, the sister who left to find herself in California (two girls that I knew personally did the same thing)the noninvolved parents,Walter Cronkite's nightly chronicle of the Vietnam War and, of course, the Beatles could all be easily conjured from my own memories. I also loved that it presented Shakespeare in a way that will spark student's interest (it did mine!) This was one of the Golden Sower Previews I didn't get a chance to read last summer so I couldn't vote for it--I'm very glad other people did."
"All of the people who gave this book five stars can't be wrong, can they? Well, I've been in the minority before, so I guess I'll put myself there again because I really do not think my middle-school students will understand the humor in this book. It reads as an adult's nostalgic look back at his seventh-grade year during the Vietnam War. Although the situations that Holling, the main character, finds himself in are supposed to be funny, I didn't find them to be humorous because of the undercurrent of darkness that lies underneath it all. The darkness comes mostly from Holling's self-absorbed father who misses his kids' activities to watch TV, refuses to pick up a child who has run away for several days and across many states, and continually admonishes his kids to put the family architectural design business ahead of their own needs. Holling is a smart, lonely kid trying to make the best of a situation controlled by the mostly misguided adults in his life. To me, his story was sad -- not funny. I thought that Schmidt never really found the balance of humor and seriousness that he was striving for. Some adults may appreciate the book, but I think most kids will be confused."
"Gary Schmidt is genius. As a professor of English he admittedly has an edge in the world of writing and his amazing talent could not be more obvious than it is in this book. Holling Hoodhood is a seventh grade boy who has to learn Shakespeare and finds ways to apply the heroes and stories from those plays to his own crazy life. This is a story of friendship and family during the late 1960's and I highly recommend it."
"I listened to this book in the car and on my Ipod and loved it. I wanted something my 23-year-old and 16-year-old could listen to with me on a road trip so chose a young adult book. It takes place in the late 60's during the Vietnam War and is about a jr. high boy, Holling Hoodhood, who learns there is a lot more to his teacher than he ever would have imagined. He learns to read Shakespeare and understand it, and he learns that teachers have lives too. Mrs. Baker's husband is MIA and he sees her struggling with this. Mrs. Baker does some pretty extraordinary things for Holling that leave a lasting impression. I loved the characters in this book and being a middle school teacher it was fun to see school from the student's perspective, but wonderful to see his transformation and learning taking place. I thought it was a fun read that capture the time period and his age well."
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