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Title details for We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier - Available

We All Fall Down

by Robert Cormier
George Guidall
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Profoundly disturbing and startlingly explicit, We All Fall Down explores the ways violence diminishes us all. If you're looking for a book to teach young adults about the devastating effects of random violence, you'll find it in this story of a group of upper-class private school students who brutally trash a young girl's house.

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  • Release date

    November 15, 2015

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781490674551
      • File size: 198205 KB
      • Duration: 06:52:55

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 870
    • Text Difficulty: 4-5

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Guidall's reading is understated and doesn't convey the horror of the event and the powerful emotions. Nonetheless, the story is so gripping it will keep young adults listening. S.S.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 2, 1991
      In an unapologetically severe story about four boys who victimize Karen Jerome and her family, Cormier once again explores the potential for malice in all of us. The teenagers leave the Jeromes' home in ruin; Karen is assaulted and subsequently hospitalized in a coma. Not for the squeamish, Cormier's novel doesn't mince words: ``The vandals shit on the floors and pissed on the walls and trashed their way through the seven-room Cape Cod cottage.'' Like Robert Westall ( The Machine Gunners ; Blitzcat ), Cormier surpasses most other writers by the sheer force of his words. Much more than a pulp thriller, this compelling, richly textured novel is told from several points of view, including that of the vandals themselves. Cormier illuminates even the darkest characters with humanity, so that in the end, readers see the complicated fabric of life itself. Motives, thoughts and feelings are set forth--not without hope, but irrevocably tragic as well. Ages 13-up.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:870
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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