Jerry Spinelli
Dead Wednesday
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Fans of Stargirl, Wringer, and Maniac Magee rejoice! Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli brings us brilliant new novel about being bold, and taking charge of your life.Dead Wednesday. On the second Wednesday in June, every 8th grader in Amber Springs is assigned the name of a teen who died from a preventable death. Car crash, drugs, recklessness. They don black clothes and teachers, townspeople, even parents, pretend they are gone, invisible...dead. It's supposed to make kids consider their mortality. But for most 8th graders, it's a day when you can get away with anything--because you're invisible. Worm nearly always feels invisible, which is ho…
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Fans of Stargirl, Wringer, and Maniac Magee rejoice! Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli brings us brilliant new novel about being bold, and taking charge of your life.Dead Wednesday. On the second Wednesday in June, every 8th grader in Amber Springs is assigned the name of a teen who died from a preventable death. Car crash, drugs, recklessness. They don black clothes and teachers, townspeople, even parents, pretend they are gone, invisible...dead. It's supposed to make kids consider their mortality. But for most 8th graders, it's a day when you can get away with anything--because you're invisible. Worm nearly always feels invisible, which is how he likes it. He lets his best friend Eddie lead the way and rule the day. And this day is going to be awesome.But letting the idea of Becca Finch (17, car crash) into his life will affect him in ways he never could have predicted. He certainly didn't expect her ghost to appear. But on one truly epic, life-altering day, the dead girl and the worm boy connect. Each of them is forced to confront what they've gotten wrong in their lives. And each will find a way to help the other move forward.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-593-30667-3
- EAN: 9780593306673
- Produktnummer: 35127533
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Sonstiges: Ab 10 J.
Über den Autor
JERRY SPINELLI is the author of many beloved novels for young readers, including Stargirl; Love, Stargirl; Milkweed; The Warden's Daughter; Crash; Wringer; and Maniac Magee, winner of the Newbery Medal; along with Knots in My Yo-Yo String, the autobiography of his childhood. A graduate of Gettysburg College, he lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, poet and author Eileen Spinelli.
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