Everyone, read: Worm Story by Morris Gleitzman.
It is, essentially, the most genius book, like EVER.
Everyone expects us teens to only wna read about sex booze and cheerleaders (which is not true, we just wanna do em), therefore I’ve completely relinquished on books targetted at teens. Instead I’ll occasionally read my sister’s primary school reading lost shits. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS:
Summary: A fat worm, Wilton, ostracised by the other microbes. (And damn, the other microbes are mighty fierce. Calls him a jiffing fatso and an entire list of punnalicious biological fat insults) The microbes believe they live in a world governed by Sludge Gods, and recently these Gods have been giving them trouble. Worm does not know he’s a worm and has always wondered who his parents were. Worm goes out in search of friends, meets a microbe named Algy. Algy tells him he is different because he’s a worm. Wilton then suddenly catches sight of another worm, and there was this huge emotional scene until he found out it was actually a noodle. Which was bloody LOL. K then Algy and Wilton decided to save the World by finding out why there’s been Sludge storms recently.
Later on in the story, Wilton finds out Algy’s a parasite living off the food he eats and also sometimes nibbles on his intestines. Again, great friendship emotionally mushy scene (just.. with a twist)(SO KEWT Algy enters and exit his rear ends), and they resolve it and run along saving the world. The rest of the story is amazing, and they meet some pretty damn kewtsome characters on the way. Best: when they described the buttocks and underwear in the POV of microbes.
Well yeah in the end (after having found the source of sludge storms (their host body Janet was undergoing stress from bullies, they formed a coalition with some microbes on a dog and the dog made friends with janet making her (-: and unstressed)). And Wilton rejected the offer to live with the worms on the Dog for Algy! WAS AMAZINGLY SCHWEET PL0X! K then what happened was that on the way back they found out that the fungus spores attacking the body before whom they escaped from had actually crept into Wilton’s body and are eating him alive.
So anyways, Algy went to find brain cells and other microbes to help, and they did, BLOODY HELL THE POTRAYAL OF THE BRAIN CELL WAS AWESOME SHIT. And Algy died during the battle inside. The braincell then confesses they only saved a loser to him to convey the message to the stomach about the situation of the body, and that she herself couldn’t do it because braincells can’t survive acid like the worm can.
So Wilton went down and told the microbes about the Truth about their World, and was mocked until he came up with this ingenious plan to prove himself, which was to describe the appearance of the next Sludge storm, since he knew what Janet would eat next. So yeah, they hailed him O Wise Worm God, and he was commended and all but really upset cause he missed Algy and GUESS WHAT.
ALGY IS A FREAKING CELL ORGANISM. So he underwent Mitosis before leaving for the trip and there’s actually a horde of Algys waiting there for Wilton! IT WAS SO ADORABLE AND AW-ISH!!
KTHXBAI.
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