Binding: Paperback
Description: Can playing dead bring you back to life? Maybe on Dead Wednesday On this day the worlds of a shy boy and a gone girl collide and the connection they make will change them both forever. A brilliant new novel from the Newbery Medal winner and author of the New York Times bestseller Stargirl. " Jerry Spinelli has created another middle grade masterpiece." Book Page 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. The kids don black shirts and for the whole day everyone in town pretends they're invisible as if they weren't even there. The adults think it will make them contemplate their mortality. The kids know it's a free pass to get away with anything. Worm Tarnauer feels invisible every day. He's perfectly happy being the unnoticed sidekick of his friend Eddie. So he's not expecting Dead Wednesday to feel that different. But he didn't count on being assigned Becca Finch (17, car crash). 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. This is the story of the unexpected heartbreaking hilarious truly epic day when Worm Tarnauer discovers his own life.
Title: Dead Wednesday
Author(s): Spinelli Jerry
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780593306703
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 4/25/2023
Category: Children’S & Teenage Fiction & True Stories