How long does it take to read The Wednesday Wars?
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt takes about 6 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Wednesday Wars
Next: Okay For Now
About 6 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 330 pages, about 90,750 words. Written for children.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class has religious instruction. Mrs. Baker doesn’t like Holling—he’s sure of it. Why else would she make him read the plays of William Shakespeare outside class? But everyone has bigger things to worry about, like Vietnam. His father wants Holling and his sister to be on their best behavior: the success of his business depends on it. But how can Holling stay out of trouble when he has so much to contend with? A bully demanding cream puffs; angry rats; and a baseball hero signing autographs the very same night Holling has to appear in a play in yellow tights! As fate sneaks up on him again and again, Holling finds Motivation—the Big M—in the most unexpected places and musters up the courage to embrace his destiny, in spite of himself.
Subjects: Juvenile Fiction, Historical Fiction, Bildungsroman, Newbery Honor, Children's fiction, Plays, fiction
