When i was in fifth grade, i didn't know how to read. Well, of course I new how to read - but not how to read read. I was a severe naivete on how you get ingested in the pages, in a total fictional life transforming slowly becoming your own. But the day I picked up Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt, I Immediately fell in love with the characters and plot in it's entirety. It was like my very own Eureka! moment. I had finally understood what my teacher had kept rambling endlessly on about - i always thought she was just trying to make us read because it was part of her paycheck. But undoubtedly, she strived to pass on her love of words to her students by encouraging us - which I can safely say infected me. Anyway, the very same and only spot
