'Just in Case' by Meg Rosoff

David Case is a boy plodding through life until his baby brother almost falls out of a window. Then he starts looking at the way in which fate seems to have singled him out. He decides that in order to avoid fate he would change himself, become Justin Case. Try new things, break out of the cocoon he's been living in and become someone else. During this he finds things out about himself and those around him and what fate has in store for him.

This novel didn't get the best of reviews. Meg Rosoff's first book 'How I Live Now' was a hard act to follow, but read this and see what you think.