Can playing Dead bring you back to life? Maybe only on Dead Wednesday...
This is the story of the unexpected, heartbreaking, hilarious, truly epic day when Worm Tarnauer discovers his own life..
And he certainly didn\'t count on Becca showing up to boss him around! Letting this girl into his head is about to change everything.
But he didn\'t count on being assigned Becca Finch (17, car crash).
So he\'s not expecting Dead Wednesday to feel that different.
He\'s perfectly happy being the unnoticed sidekick of his friend Eddie.
Worm Tarnauer feels invisible every day.
The kids know it\'s a free pass to get away with anything.
The adults think it will make them contemplate their mortality.
The kids don black shirts and for the whole day everyone in town pretends they\'re invisible--as if they weren\'t even there. -- BookPage, starred review On Dead Wednesday, every eighth grader in Amber Springs is assigned the name and identity of a teenager who died a preventable death in the past year.
Jerry Spinelli has created another middle grade masterpiece.
A brilliant new novel from the Newbery Medal winner and author of the New York Times bestseller Stargirl .
On this day the worlds of a shy boy and a gone girl collide, and the connection they make will change them both forever.
Can playing Dead bring you back to life? Maybe only on Dead Wednesday..
