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. —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. 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.
