Preller, James The Fall, 196 pages. Feiwel & Friends, 2016. $17.
Langauge: PG (12 swears, 0 ‘f’); Mature Content: PG-13 (cyberbullying);
Violence: G.
Morgan threw herself off the top of the water tower and Sam
knows that he played a part in her choice.
Now he is going back and writing down what he remembers in order to come
to grips with what he enabled - from the first signs of the angry ex-friend who
started the cyberbullying, through Sam’s own twisted feelings about Megan – the girl
he likes, but he wants no one to know they are friends - to the aftermath of
Megan’s tragic choice.
Preller’s latest book is painful to read and an excellent
companion to Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why – or it might even overtake that
book as the must read book about teen suicide.
While this is told from Sam’s point of view, I would love to read the
same circumstances from Athena’s point of view (read the book to find out who
she is). It would be so great if teens
would actually read this and learn from it.
MS, HS – ESSENTIAL.
FYI – I was leafing through the book while I was working on
this review and I couldn’t stop the tears from flooding my eyes from reliving
the experience.
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