The Wednesday Wars

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Across
  1. 8. Danny Hupfer's coming-of-age ceremony in the final chapter
  2. 9. What famous baseball player gives Holling their jacket
  3. 13. What Holling wears to school (that he soon regrets) on the day of the New York standard test
  4. 15. What Meryl Lee does to Holling in April
  5. 20. What University Heather wants to go to
  6. 21. Holling's religious affiliation, which keeps him at school while others go to Temple or Catechism
  7. 22. The specific fruit Lieutenant Baker promises he will be home "in time for" in his final telegram
  8. 25. What happened at woolworths involving Meryl Lee and Holling to break up when Holling discovers what Meryl Lee shows her father
  9. 27. The makeshift "drafting paper" Holling uses to sketch his father’s design while explaining it to Meryl Lee
  10. 30. The peace offering Holling leaves on Meryl Lee’s desk to show he forgives her and realizes she didn't mean to "spy"
  11. 32. The name of the Junior Highschool
  12. 34. Action Mr. Kowalski takes with his winning bid to do the right thing
  13. 35. Shakespeare teacher to Holling
  14. 36. Who Holling saves from getting hit by a school bus
  15. 38. What Holling gets from playing Shakespeare
  16. 39. Author
  17. 41. Insult Holling's father uses for Mr. Kowalski's integrity
  18. 44. What the chapters are named after
  19. 45. Who dies in the story
  20. 48. The location of the class camping trip where Holling experiences a moment of self-discovery while watching the sunrise
  21. 49. What picture Doug Swieteck's brother puts up in the halls of the junior highschool
  22. 50. A disparaging term Holling learns from Shakespeare to describe a fool or "patch"
Down
  1. 1. The award the book won
  2. 2. What Holling's dad calls their house
  3. 3. The last name of Meryl Lee’s father and the lead architect of the rival firm that "borrowed" the design
  4. 4. What Holling tells his friends what the part "ariel" in the play is
  5. 5. The specific name of the vietnamese food ms.bigio passes out
  6. 6. The reporter Holling's dad watches every night
  7. 7. Holling's crush
  8. 10. What causes Holling to break the record time on tryouts
  9. 11. What club Holling joins
  10. 12. What part Holling plays in the Shakespeare play
  11. 14. Holling's nemisis?
  12. 16. What Holling cashes in to pay for Heather’s bus ticket
  13. 17. Names of rats
  14. 18. Holling's friend
  15. 19. Mantle, the baseball player who refuses to sign a ball
  16. 21. What the eighth graders do when Holling runs in front of them at practices
  17. 23. The first name of Lieutenant Baker, Mrs. Baker’s husband, who is declared missing in action in Vietnam
  18. 24. The lunch lady
  19. 26. The specific five-and-dime store where Holling and Meryl Lee go for Cokes after seeing Romeo and Juliet
  20. 28. What Meryl Lee gives to her father on accident
  21. 29. Main character
  22. 31. What Holling's teacher makes him read
  23. 33. Holling's sisters name
  24. 37. What Meryl Lee wears to hide her crying eyes after the betrayal
  25. 40. The architectural style Mr. Kowalski was originally stuck on (muttering the word repeatedly) before seeing Holling's modern sketch
  26. 41. What Holling throws at Doug Swieteck's brother
  27. 42. The massive contract Mr. Kowalski eventually wins later in the year, saving his business
  28. 43. The new Vietnamese refugee student in Holling's class
  29. 46. What Ms.Baker hates (other than Holling's guts)
  30. 47. The last name of the baker who agrees to give Holling cream puffs