We All Fall Down (Eric Walters novel)
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| We All Fall | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Eric Walters |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Young adult novel |
| Publisher | Doubleday Canada |
| Publication date | March 2006 |
| Published in English |
March 2006 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | 978-0-385-66192-8 |
We All Fall Down is a 2006 young adult novel by Eric Walters, focusing on the 9/11 attacks.
==Story== this book is awesome
As Will Fuller begins high school, his history teacher, Mrs Phelps, teaches the class an old poem, "Ring Around the Rosie" and explains its origins. She reminds them that on September 11, 2001, Will and his classmates will participate in a "Take Your Kids to Work Day" with their parents. His friend, James, will go with his father, who is a firefighter, while Will reveals he will be spending the day his father John at the World Trade Center. Mrs. Phelps ends the class by saying that it could be an experience that changes their entire lives.
Will accompanies his father to World Trade Center, where his father works at a company on the eighty-fifth floor of the South Tower. After a brief tour of the office, Will witnesses a plane crashing into the North Tower. As the fire warden for the floor, John orders all the offices to be evacuated. Will refuses to leave his father as John continues to evacuate the offices when a second plane strikes the South Tower. Before they begin their descent of the tower, John gives Will a wet tie and whistle to blow in case they are separated.
Will and John make their way down the tower through the stairwell farthest from the crash until they find Ting, a woman has been badly injured, on the seventy-fourth floor. As they take turns carrying Ting down the stairs, they encounter a group of firefighters climbing the stairs on the thirty-ninth floor. The firefighters include James's father, who asks them to take James with them when they leave the building. As they move down the building, Will and John discuss who may have crashed the planes into the towers and why.
When they reach the lobby, John hands Will his cell phone and tells him to go outside and call his mother. Just as Will leaves the building, the tower collapses and he is thrown away from the building by the rush of air escaping the building. Though a policeman asks Will to leave, he refuses because he is waiting for his father. When the dust clears, Will believes his father is dead, but blows the whistle his father gave him. His father emerges from the rubble with ting on his back and is reunited with Will and Ting before they go to a mobile hospital to be treated.
[edit] See also
- United We Stand, the sequel that focuses on the aftermath of 9/11.
