(Clarion Books) In "Okay for Now," eighth-grader Doug Swieteck – a lesser character in Gary D. Schmidt's 2007 Newbery Honor-winning “The Wednesday Wars – is not happy about his family’s move. He detests their new house – which he refers to as “The Dump” – and his beloved Yankees aren’t even playing on the boring neighbor’s transistor radio in his boring new town. Meanwhile, his mother is worried about Doug’s oldest brother who’s off fighting in a Vietnam delta somewhere. Monitor reviewer Augusta Scattergood called this book for tween readers an "often heartbreaking but always funny novel," in which "Schmidt ties complicated threads into a remarkably satisfying story."
