Introduction: Monument 14 (Monument 14 #1) Your mother hollers that you鈥檙e going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don鈥檛 stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don鈥檛 thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not鈥攜ou launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner. Only, if it鈥檚 the last time you鈥檒l ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you鈥檇 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鈥檚 action-packed debut novel, 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鈥攁s they know it鈥攁part....