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What is a full summary for the last chapter of The Wednesday Wars?

The last chapter of The Wednesday Wars is a good read.  A lot of different things happen, so it feels a bit disjointed at times, but that's to be expected at the end of a school year.  


With a new month, comes a new play for Holling to read.  Mrs. Baker assigns Much Ado About Nothing for Holling to read.  At first Holling does not like the play, because it is too happy too often.  Holling's negative reaction to the play comes from the fact that Robert Kennedy died on June 6.  Heather Hoodhood did not take the news well, and she locked herself in her room.  Holling was the only person that could convince her to come out, and the two of them went to St. Adelbert's to light a candle and to pray. 


For the end of the year field trip, Holling's class goes camping in the mountains.  There are the problems associated with any camping trip.  Things like everything being dirty, or not having enough of certain things, and lots of bugs were all memorable events of the trip.  


Next up in the chapter is Danny Hupfer's bar mitzvah.  It's a great event, which of course Mr. Hoodhood tries to ruin with negative comments.  Holling stands up to his father this time, and the reader gets a sense of how much Holling has grown over the course of the year.  The chapter ends with Mr. Baker coming home from Vietnam. 

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