The Wednesday Wars 

So far the book The Wednesday Wars has been amazing.  One of the things that I like about this book is the way the author doesn't write what happened, Gary D. Schmidt shows you.  The way he writes creates a picture in your mind which makes this book really great.  Also Gary puts a lot of voice in his writing. He puts lots of hyperboles, metaphors, similes, personifications, alliterations, onomatopoeias and idioms.  Instead of writing, "It smelt under the floorboards," Gary writes, "A scent that lingered like the smell of a dead animal caught underneath the floorboards."  The sentences that Gary writes are detailed and unique.  You don't see this kind of writing in a lot of books.  There are some books that are boring and tell you what happened and there are other books that have a lot of detail.  But this book is detailed and creates a picture in your head that makes you want to flip to the next page.  What I love the most about this book is the way the author describes Holling's reaction when he survives one of Mrs.Baker's evil plots or when he suspects that Mrs.Baker is planning an evil plot.  It's hilarious. If I could rate this book in what I've read out of ten, I would rate it ten out of ten. 

-Adam