The Wednesday Wars

By Gary D. Schmidt, suggested ages 10 & up

Let's face it: we do judge books by their covers.

I spent a few hours last week searching for eBooks from our local library that I could download to my son's Nook. He had recently started Lord of the Rings after loving The Hobbit, but he didn't care for the first book in the trilogy.

That's when I spotted The Wednesday Wars. Something about the cover and the description caught my eye, so I checked it out. My son, like many others, isn't always willing to jump into a new book without knowing anything about it. But he jumped, and hasn't looked back.

The story of a seventh-grader who is certain his teacher hates him has captured my fifth-grader's attention so much so that he can't turn his Nook off during meals. That's always a good sign.