In Laybourne's action-packed debut novel, six high school kids, two eighth graders, and six little kids are trapped together in a chain superstore. While outside, a series of escalating disasters seems to be tearing the worldNas they know itNapart, so the kids build a refuge for themselves inside.

In Laybourne's action-packed debut novel, six high school kids, two eighth graders, and six little kids are trapped together in a chain superstore. While outside, a series of escalating disasters seems to be tearing the worldNas they know itNapart, so the kids build a refuge for themselves inside.

• 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 not--you 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 novel Monument 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 world--as they know it--apart. ** 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)