Reading Response

I recently started reading the book "The Wednesday Wars," by Gary D. Schmidt. It is about a seventh grade boy named Holling Hoodhood who belives that his teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates him and is always plotting something against him. He thinks that she hates him because he is presbyterian, and he attend temple or church. In the very beginning of the story, Mrs. Baker was a little bit mean to Holling. She always made him clap erasers on Wednesdays after school when half of the class was at Hebrew school and the other half was at Catholic school. Now, she is actually being pretty nice to him, and rewards him with cream puffs on Wednesday afternoons if he does a good job on his chore. For some strange reason, Holling thinks that this is just a weird, twisted method that Mrs. Baker is using to munipulate him and that she is plotting something against him. I don't think that this is true.
I think that Mrs. Baker didn't like Holling at first because she didn't understand him and she thought that it was strange that he had no religion.  I think that now that she's gotten to know him better, she likes him more. Why else would she give him a cream puff, but not the other thirty students in the class? I don't understand why Holling is so uptight about Mrs. Baker not liking him. She's his teacher! Not his best friend or his family who kind-of have to like him.
I conclusion, this is a very good book so far. I highly recommend it for anyone who is looking for a good book to read.