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Reviewed on September 1, 2021 | Middle Grade
Gr 3–6—Worm Tarnauer prefers to go unnoticed. He doesn't want to stand out, and he's happy to let his best friend Eddie take the spotlight. In a somewhat morbid exercise designed to encourage students to consider their own mortality, the teachers at Worm's school assign each eighth grader the name of a teenager who died in the past year. The students don black shirts and are ignored all day by teachers and fellow students. Typically, this leads the eighth graders ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More