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 its the last time youll ever see your mother you sort of start to wish youd 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 Laybournes 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

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