Monument 14 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444914707 ISBN 13: 9781444914702

Publisher: Hodder Childrens

Synopsis

Monument 14

About this title

About the Author:

Emmy Laybourne is a writer and actress. She has appeared in movies like Superstar and The In-Laws and has performed original comedy on Comedy Central, MTV, VH1 and with UCB and Chicago City Limits. She lives in Upstate New York with her husband and their two children. Monument 14 is her fiction debut.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 9 Up-Take your everyday apocalyptic story, put some high school and middle school students and kindergarteners together on a bus, hurtle them into a giant supermarket, sprinkle a contamination epidemic, and you get Laybourne's thriller (Feiwel & Friends, 2012). Sophomore outcast Dean narrates the ordeal as he struggles to look out for his brother, keep an eye on his crush, and keep order as major issues arise (contaminated air and water, murderers on the outside, lice). What makes this different from other doomsday titles is its ability to create a solid family amongst the different ages of characters that all look out for the youngest of survivors. Each of the discs begins and ends with an eerie instrumental piece, while Todd Haberkorn's careful narration shows limited emotion as the harrowing events unfold. A few sexual situations and carnage descriptions make this appropriate for slightly older teens. The audio ends abruptly with a cliff-hanger, hinting at a sequel. Fans of Susan Pfeffer's Life as We Knew It (Harcourt, 2006) or Ashfall (Tanglewood, 2011) by Mike Mullin will enjoy Laybourne's debut novel. Purchase where demand for dystopian fiction is high.-Amanda Schiavulli Finger Lakes Library System, NYα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Childrens
• ISBN 10: 1444914707
• ISBN 13: 9781444914702
• Binding: Paperback