We All Fall Down - by Robert Cormier

Summary/Overview: This book enters the mind of many characters within it. We see Jane Jerome's family's house get trashed, along with her sister thrown down a flight of stairs resulting in a coma. We see Jane's perspective on this along with one of the trashers perspective as well, Buddy. He feels really bad about the trashing, and deals with his problems by drinking, and drinking, and drinking. We see how both him and Jane deal with this situation from two different sides. But then there is this other character who witnesses the trashing and calls himself "The Avenger". He plans to avenge the house and the trashers. We find out this person really means business. The Avenger is revealed in the end of the book, and it is a real shocker. In the end characters come together through these odd series of events.
Personal opinions and thoughts: I enjoyed the book, but was not overly excited about it. It is written well and could spark the interest of many readers but just didn't have the spark that I was looking for. I did enjoy the change of perspectives in the third person narration, it really put a spin on the book.
Would I teach this book: I do not think that I would use this in a classroom. It just didn't really get me going and I want to pick books for whole class reads that really catch my attention and leave me excited in the end and this just wasn't one of them. I would definitely encourage my students to read it though.
Quote: "Now she knew the desolation of the words and how it felt to be so alone, abandoned, and betrayed."