Content: G (student deaths mentioned, but no descriptions)
BUYING ADVISORY: MS - ADVISABLE
APPEALS TO: SEVERAL
Dead Wednesday is the greatest! The entire 8th grade is assigned the name of a student who died young and no one is allowed to talk to them all day - because of course, they are dead! Worm loves this idea. However his day is kind of ruined, because his dead person, 17yo Becca who dies in a car crash, actually shows up, well her ghost does, and she follows him around all day - decidedly not ignoring Worm. Worm’s day will definitely change him.
Spinelli goes back to his storytelling roots here - Stargirl quality. That being said, if a student picks this up expecting something silly, or something scary, they will be disappointed - lessons are learned and lives are changed instead. The characters default white.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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