Monument 14 [Paperback]

Your mother hollers that you're going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don't stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don't thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course notyou launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner.

Only, if it's the last time you'll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you'd stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.

But the bus was barreling down our street, so I ran.

Fourteen kids. One superstore. A million things that go wrong.

In Emmy Laybourne's action-packed debut novelMonument 14, six high school kids (some popular, some not), two eighth graders (one a tech genius), and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. While outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill, seems to be tearing the worldas they know itapart.

By Emmy Laybourne:

The Monument 14 Trilogy
Monument 14(Book 1)
Monument 14: Sky on Fire(Book 2)
Monument 14: Savage Drift(Book 3)

Sweet

The Berserker series
Berserker(Book 1)
Ransacker(Book 2)

...a combination survival and apocalyptic story. VOYA

...a real thriller& Booklist

&Laybourne's debut ably turns what could have been yet another postapocalyptic YA novel into a tense, claustrophobic, and fast-paced thriller. Publishers Weekly, starred

...intriguing beyond the survival elements... Horn Book

...readers will eagerly await the second volume.  Kirkus

Concise, clear, and riveting. A cliff-hanger ending leaves readers devastated but breathlessly awaiting the sequel. A stellar addition to any collection.