Eighth-grader Worm Tarnauer has done his best to live down to his name, "Worm," always operating underground, in the dark, happy to let his best friend, Eddie, be the one interacting with the world. However, on Dead Wednesday at school, for some reason unknown, the teachers thought it would be a good idea for the eighth-graders to put on black shirts and pretend to be teenagers who died last year from preventable causes to raise awareness. Worm thinks...