Together We Fall by Morris N. Smeader

In a novel about teenagers, Together We Fall tells how four high school students, unlikely to hang out together under normal circumstances, form a friendship based on shared experience. As they get to know one another, slowly, they begin to open up about their lives, which are far from ideal, and find common ground. At the urging of the oldest and most worldly of the boys, they agree to take part in a plan that will call attention to the problems they have lived with and continue to face. Their decision to act will have a significant impact on themselves, their families, and their school, as, well as the community they live in. The novel is entirely fictional, but allows readers to see and think about a very real problem in our society.