Libby on Wednesday

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Book Overview

Having been put ahead in an accelerated eighth grade program by her bizarre and creative family, precocious eleven-year-old Libby hates her socialization process, until she makes some highly original... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440404983
• ISBN13: 9780440404989
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

This is a cool book!

Libby on Wednesday is a really cool book. The characters are really cool and interesting. The plot is interesting, and a big scene at the end makes this book totally exciting. This is a really great book!

This is a great book!

This is a wonderful book! It has a great story, and once you get into it you can't put it down. The characters are all really likeable. This is a great book for anyone to read, not just elementary students (although elementary students will enjoy it, too). This is a totally awesome book!

"The Breakfast Club" book for older elementary students

What can a genius do when, after years of home schooling, her wacky family decides that she needs to interact with her peers? Not much. After being forced to enter a writing contest and accidentally winning, Libby has to spend the afternoons in a writing club with four other, vastly different students who also won: the school bully, the punkish tomboy, the princess, and the geek. As in the movie "The Breakfast Club," their relationships and interactions evolve from the stereotypical ones (bully picks on everyone, princess snubs punk girl)into something almost akin to friendship as circumstances force them together.

Libby on Wednesday

I usually enjoy Zilpha Keatly Snyder's books and this was no exception. In this book the main character, Libby, has been homeschooled all her life by her eccentric relatives until her mother decides she must be "socialized." Libby is very different from everyone else at Morrison Middle School and hates the school. Libby enters one of her stories into a writing contest and wins. All the winners must join a creative writing group, which is later in the book named FFW, or the Future Famous Writers. Almost the entire book is centered on the relationships between the FFW members. The FFW members were not just your ordinary nerds, bullies, and cheerleaders, either. It was very interesting to see how the FFW members' views of each other changed during the book. One of the characters, that intriged me the most was Gary Greene, otherwise known as G.G.. All the other characters actions were explained throughout the book. Only at the end did you find out why G.G. acted so strangely. I really enjoyed this book and I strongly recommend reading it.

I loved it!

I thought Libby on Wednesday was a great book. It was about a girl named Libby who had been tutored at home all her life. Her mother, Mercedes, decided Libby needed to be "socialized", so Libby was forced to go to school. There she got put in a writing club that met weekly with a bunch of people who teased her for being short and smart. Libby on Wednesday is about what happened to them. I loved the book because I'm tutored at home and people think I'm weird and they tease. I highly recommend it!