Thursday, August 9, 2012

Monument 14, by Emmy Laybourne

Monument 14, by Emmy Laybourne, 296 pages

The day starts like any other for Dean, who is riding the school bus when a giant hail storm sends his bus into a wreck and a rescuing bus drives them into a super-store. Dean and thirteen other kids, ranging from kindergarteners to high school seniors, find themselves locked in the store and realizing that the hail storm was just the beginning.  A megatsunami has wrought havoc on the world, wiping out parts of the country and triggering massive earthquakes and natural disasters, including a release of chemicals from NORAD that have frightening results on those exposed.  High school drama is intense enough without a natural disaster thrown into the mix- this book was a page-turner for me and reminded me (in a good way) of Mike Mullin's Ashfall.

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