by Dianne Salerni is a YA fantasy novel. Teen-age Jax is orphaned and his guardian is only a few years older. Why did they send him to live with him instead of cousins? One day Jax experiences a strange ‘zombie-like event,’ there’s NOONE in his town, electricity is not working. What’s going on? It turns out there is an eighth day of the week stuck between Wednesday and Thursday that only certain people experience. The next day his guardian tells him he has to get a tattoo. All people who are ‘eighth-dayers’ have this tattoo. A interesting premise and though set in contemporary times, has an old-fashioned feeling.
