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An astounding novel for YA readers. It is very reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye to me, but a lot clearer, concise, and likable. READ IT!


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Okay for Now Gary D Schmidt Books Reviews

As a former teacher, I found so many similarities between Doug Swieteck and students who -- for various reasons -- fall deep into the cracks of formal education. The trite adage of "it takes a village to raise a child" is raised to its best level when Doug's talents are perceived by an assistant in a sleepy library. Life lessons are taught using John James Audubon's beautiful art as the launch pad for Doug's awakening mind.
I bought this book to read with a book club even though it wasn't a book I would have picked up on my own. I was pleasantly surprised by how good this book is! I loved it and couldn't put it down. I felt like the book presented a difficult time in history and a flawed family with so much hope and honesty. I appreciated that the characters in the book had difficult decisions to make on a daily basis and that the reader got to see the consequences of their poor choices and the good that came when they purposely made good choices. I was worried it would be a bummer to read, but it was so uplifting. I loved it so much I had my husband read it and my 5th grade daughter. They both loved it too. I will definitely be reading other books by this author.
If you likes The Wednesday Wars you will love Okay for Now. Anybody can read this and enjoy it. It is a book about a kid named Doug who is trying to adjust to a new life in a new town, without any of his friends. You also learn about Doug’s tough home life, he has troubles with his father and his brother. All while he is missing his oldest brother who is out at war. Thankfully there are new people that Doug meets in the new town that expect the best of him. They empower him, and he empowers them. One of my favorite parts of the book is how he relates his life to the art he draws.
“Okay for Now” captured my attention on the first page and I found it hard to put down. It’s a story of a teenage boy struggling to survive in a very dysfunctional family, in a new area where he knows no one, and in a new school. Despite numerous setbacks, he perseveres and makes positive life changes. The story is filled with quirky characters and invaluable lessons about love, life and survival.
I am 40+ and enjoy a broad spectrum of genres in literature. I find however, that when I want a good fiction book to escape with, many adult books seem to lack a certain essence of insight and enrichment that I do find in many stories written for teens.

I am amazed at Gary Schmidt's talent to create very different stories to present a variety of life's hardships candidly, without any sugar coating, and yet finds a way to show the reader some sweetness and hope through life's challenges. I loved Wednesday Wars and consider it one of my favorite books in a list of my top ten or so. This has definitely been added to that list! I found it to be cathartic, as someone who grew up with an unstable and abusive parent.

I cannot recommend Schmidt's Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy enough either, totally different type of story again, but your life will be better for reading it.

Also if you find these stories enriching a couple from other authors I recommend are The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - a must!!! Tangerine and a Plague Year by Edward Bloor, and The fault in Our Stars by John Green, I could name a bunch of others.
I loved this book too. Usually companion books to the original story, in this case The Wednesday Wars, are not as good or even horrible. Also a National Book Finalist like the original, this book stood on its own as a great novel. There is less emphasis on literature but Jane Eyre is brought into the story as well as art/drawing, science and geography. It is set in the 1968-1969 in the era of the Vietnam War and the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. The main character Doug, moves with his very poor family from NYC to a small town so his drunk abusive father can find work. Starting out as an outcast due to his family's financial situation and his brother and father's criminal reputation, Doug is taken under the wing of a few citizens of Maryville like the town librarian, his science teacher, and the grocer's daughter who see him as his own person, a good person with talents and intelligence that no one has tried to nurture and grow until now. They help him get through the abuse and neglect he has to endure as well the town suspicion of his family for the store robberies occurring around town and his older brother coming home from the war with life-changing physical and mental injuries. This was also written as a children's book but as an adult I still thoroughly enjoyed it.
An astounding novel for YA readers. It is very reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye to me, but a lot clearer, concise, and likable. READ IT!