Wednesday edition by Steven Evans Literature Fiction eBooks
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Girls are only supposed to have fun — right?
Among the young scholars on the first day of seventh grade, Lakshmi Pardeshi — better known as Lash — befriends a fascinating girl named Wednesday, who claims she can control people with her mind. Impressed by Wednesday’s bold demeanor and sharp wit, Lash enlists Wednesday to help with an unpopular friend’s bid for class president amid unstoppable competition. With each passing day, Lash witnesses Wednesday’s manipulation go from innocent pranks to admirable ways of skirting discipline to much darker deeds.
Wednesday edition by Steven Evans Literature Fiction eBooks
The characters in this book are predominantly 7th graders. I may be projecting, but I don't think that 7th graders talk like that. This book is full of big words, and I can understand if the author is trying to appeal to young adults by making these characters mature in ideas and with their choice of words. This book is a quick read, it's not very boring, but the thing that kinda sucks is how they put emphasis on the presidential election (for school) and in the ending chapters it doesn't even matter anymore. It's times like these when I feel like I've wasted time. For some odd reason the book felt like it could turn into a mystery, and then it seemed like the author began to run out of ideas because it just seemed like it was jumping all over he place. It became a mystery, then it fell flat of a mystery and turned into something vague. There were a lot of stereotypes for men and women throughout the book, and I think that it was the fact that the 7th grade kids were the ones stating that "women should..." "men always..." made me cringe a little. I'm not a feminist, but it just felt awkward in the biggest of ways. And then you got Wednesday calling out a teacher for belittling her "girl problems". It just felt hypocritical and fake, and almost as if using gender to justify the actions of people. I loved Wednesdays character until near end, Lashes character grew brighter and to be honest, I didn't like her. She just came off annoying, and it didn't help that the ending was as it was.Product details
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Wednesday edition by Steven Evans Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I won a copy of this book in a LibraryThing giveaway, in exchange for the following honest review.
This book had a lot of potential, but for me it didn't maximize on any of it. The characters (7th graders) were not realistic and spoke like they'd recently read a thesaurus and wanted to show off. The plot itself was intriguing, and there were moments of realism, but the ending fell flat and for every realistic moment there's two or three inexcusable absurdities.
This satire could sit nicely on the shelf with such titles as Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm. The combination of real-time situations and the political climate we currently face parallels are undeniable. And again, though this is satirical, the sitting could by any middle school or high school across this country today. Student body election; the school sanctioned popularity contest.
What Didn’t Work These 12-year-olds will make you feel very uneducated. They have the vocabulary of political and literature scholars. When you have one character of young age with this kind of intelligence you think it's plausible, but in this case, there are 3! Their extra intelligence makes the rest of the students look really ignorant, including a 12-years-old misusing a word my 9 year old knows.
Quote “. . . Said he didn’t want me to feel as if I owed him something, and the speech came from his desire to see me succeed. So it came to me anomaly.”
“Anonymously,” Lash said, shaking her head at the thought of this boy making any legitimate decisions for the school.”
There are two serious injuries events here that never gets wrapped up and for as much stuff that happens around these events you want to know the outcome and the author doesn’t give that info up. For just over 200 pages I wanted just a little more to tie up a few more loose ends of the story. Lastly, Lash resolve about the events and the revelation about Wednesday change a few times. Lash makes a declaration that she has to kill Wednesday; this line is out of character. Her attitude about her end of the book achievements move back and forth between wanting it and not wanting the responsibility. For a moment she is just like every other East Ender; almost corrupted in the way she eats up the new attention. The final moment of Wednesday and Lash’s encounter doesn't answer the question if the girls are friends again or if Lash understands why Wednesday did what she did. And that statement with the conclusion of the book leaves the story very open.
Quote “She knew this power posed a threat to her and to the city’s and school’s very way of life. She knew what needed to be done.She knew she had to kill Wednesday.”
What Did Work This book does a great job showing you how different classes and economic groups read each other and their prejudice that even they may not realize they have. We are supposed to agree with Lash but even she, being an East Ender, passes judgment on the Middle and West enders as almost a slip of the tongue.
Quote “The meddling middlers,” Lash said. “That’s what my father calls those kids who are always found vandalizing the school. . . . You’d think those vandals would come from the west—”
Wednesday looked over at Lash, who could only look on at Wednesday for any sign of a reply.
“It’s ok, Lash. I understand,” Wednesday finally spoke.
“I didn’t mean it like that, honest,” Lash said. “I just—I spoke out of turn. I shouldn’t have placed a cognitive bias on your area of the city. It was wrong of me.”
Though this is a political book it's a simple read and adults and older teenagers will enjoy it. I can see this as a literature class reading for 9th to 12th graders. There is plenty to compare and contrast, but it's interesting enough to hold a student or adults attention.
Wednesday by Steven Evans is rated 3.75 / 5 open books.
I won a print copy of this book from the author through a giveaway he had on LibraryThing.com and the following is my honest opinion.
Do you remember when you were in middle school and there was the annual election for class president? Back then did you have a best friend who though relatively unpopular wanted to become just that – the class president; and you would do anything to help them to succeed in their quest? If you can, then you can step into Lakshmi Pardeshi’s [Lash to her friends] shoes as she undertakes that quest to help her best friend.
When Wednesday becomes the new girl at school and starts claiming she can control people just by thinking of it in her mind. Fascinated by that, as well as her confident behavior and keen wit, Lash befriends her, and then seeks out Wednesday’s assistance in helping an unpopular friend’s [Elmer] bid for class president against in what can be best described as an almost impossible lost cause.
However, with each passing day, Lash witnesses Wednesday’s mind-controlling actions go from harmless jokes to ones which are bordering on having disciplinary actions taken against the pranksters involved to ones which can be considered to be practically sinister in nature. The more Wednesday uses her powers at Lash’s request, the more Lash begins to realize that her actions to help her friend is instead turning out to be a mistake.
But, on the other hand, you’ve got the rest of the students running for class president trying their best and are resolute in disrupting Elmer’s chances of winning.
Will Elmer win the election after all is said and done? Will everyone’s friendship remain intact at that time? There’s quite a lot of suspense in the pages of this book, which should keep its readers turning pages culminating in the surprising ending. For having given his readers a fast-spaced, page-turning, suspenseful reading experience, I’ve to give the author, Steven Evans, 5 STARS for his endeavor here.
The characters in this book are predominantly 7th graders. I may be projecting, but I don't think that 7th graders talk like that. This book is full of big words, and I can understand if the author is trying to appeal to young adults by making these characters mature in ideas and with their choice of words. This book is a quick read, it's not very boring, but the thing that kinda sucks is how they put emphasis on the presidential election (for school) and in the ending chapters it doesn't even matter anymore. It's times like these when I feel like I've wasted time. For some odd reason the book felt like it could turn into a mystery, and then it seemed like the author began to run out of ideas because it just seemed like it was jumping all over he place. It became a mystery, then it fell flat of a mystery and turned into something vague. There were a lot of stereotypes for men and women throughout the book, and I think that it was the fact that the 7th grade kids were the ones stating that "women should..." "men always..." made me cringe a little. I'm not a feminist, but it just felt awkward in the biggest of ways. And then you got Wednesday calling out a teacher for belittling her "girl problems". It just felt hypocritical and fake, and almost as if using gender to justify the actions of people. I loved Wednesdays character until near end, Lashes character grew brighter and to be honest, I didn't like her. She just came off annoying, and it didn't help that the ending was as it was.
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