Now, Doug gets an entire book to himself. This truly is a stand-alone book.ĭoug Swietek appears in The Wednesday Wars, but he’s notable mostly for his list of “401 ways to make a teacher hate you” and his older brother, known only as “Doug Swietek’s brother” who is, himself, a notorious trouble maker and always out to get someone (often Holling). If you haven’t read The Wednesday Wars, you won’t have that unpleasant sensation of missing a lot of things as you read Okay for Now (oh, how I loathe that feeling).
Okay for Now is a companion book to The Wednesday Wars, but most definitely not a sequel. Gary Schmidt books have everything – brains, wit, humor, heart. I really think Gary Schmidt might be the best middle-grade author alive today.
I worried that there was no way it could live up to The Wednesday Wars, which is perhaps my favorite book of all time, but it was just as wonderful. I don’t have words to praise Okay for Now highly enough – I have had to curb myself considerably to keep from quoting nearly the entire book in this review.
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