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A boy named Billy makes a $50 bet that he can eat 15 [[earthworm]]s in 15 days. He and his friend, Tom, devise several ingenious methods of making the worms more palatable, whilst the two boys who talked him into the bet, Alan and Joe, themselves try several ingenious schemes to make Billy lose the bet. |
A boy named Billy makes a $50 bet that he can eat 15 [[earthworm]]s in 15 days. He and his friend, Tom, devise several ingenious methods of making the worms more palatable, whilst the two boys who talked him into the bet, Alan and Joe, themselves try several ingenious schemes to make Billy lose the bet. |
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Billy does quite well, but ultimately chokes on the final worm and dies. |
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Revision as of 04:15, 7 August 2006
For the film based on the book, see How to Eat Fried Worms (film).
How to Eat Fried Worms is the title of a children's novel written by Thomas Rockwell, first published in 1973. It was later turned into a CBS Storybreak episode in the mid-1980s, and a movie of the same name in 2006. Because of the novel's content, the idea of eating worms as part of a bet is thought to be disgusting by some, it has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 at number ninety six. [1]
Plot Summary
A boy named Billy makes a $50 bet that he can eat 15 earthworms in 15 days. He and his friend, Tom, devise several ingenious methods of making the worms more palatable, whilst the two boys who talked him into the bet, Alan and Joe, themselves try several ingenious schemes to make Billy lose the bet.
Billy does quite well, but ultimately chokes on the final worm and dies.
Film
In 2006, New Line and Walden Media will release a film version of How to Eat Fried Worms, which was directed by Bob Dolman.
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