Robbie, AKA Worm, is in 8th grade. Every year the 8th graders participate in Dead Wednesday where the students are assigned a teenager who died in the previous year by things that could be avoided, such as drugs, alcohol, texting while driving, etc. The students always look forward to it because they become "invisible" and can pretty much get away with anything, burping in people's faces, climbing on desks, you name it and they get out 1/2 a day early. Robbie and his best friend Eddie along with the entire 8th grade is planning on going to watch a huge fight at 12:30, but Worm's mom keeps texting him that she needs him to come home and help with the writer's retreat they own. As Worm starts his day he gets his assigned dead kid, Rebecca Finch. Things are kinda weird as the teachers don't talk to them, make eye contact with them, or anything. Worm really thinks it's weird that he keeps seeing a girl in raspberry colored pjs. Once he gets close enough to see her face he realizes it is Rebecca, his dead kid! Is he going crazy or is something else at work here? He and Rebecca try to figure it out.
Wow. What a great book. Worm is insecure, shy, and defers to Eddie. He thinks the whole Dead Wednesday is stupid, but in participating learns a lot about himself and life in general. Such a great what if book for small choices we make everyday.
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