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)