Thursday, December 18, 2014

Monument 14

Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne, 294 pages


On the way to school the world seems to come to an end that morning.  Giant hail comes down and Dean’s bus driver loses control of the bus and crashes.  The bus carrying Dean’s younger brother is behind them but their driver manages to get under cover by driving the bus directly through the doors of the Greenway super store.  She then manages to help rescue the survivors of the bus crash.  So, six high school kids, two junior high kids and four elementary age kids are trapped in the store, with the Network down and no way to contact anyone.  Although it really isn’t safe, the bus driver, decides to leave the high school kids in charge and try to get to the hospital to get help, because some of the kids are injured.  Thus begins the kids’ ordeal.  They have food, but they must learn to work together in order to survive not only the storms and the release of chemicals from a nearby plant, but also the people who want to get in to the store for various reasons, mostly not good.  I really enjoyed this apocalyptic survival story and think that teens that enjoy this genre would too.

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