A book that I read is Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne.  One theme for this book is: When in danger, or Safety, stick together with the people you know. This is a theme for the book, because in the book, there is a hail storm that ruins everything. Houses, stores, hospitals, vehicles, almost everything is destroyed, except for the buildings with thick metal roofs, or the buildings underground.  In the book, there is a group of kids whose buses got ruined while they were riding to school in the hail storm, their bus driver, Mrs. Wooly, brought them to a Greenway, which is like a super Wal-Mart. This is what happened; “The bus reached the store. I thought she'd stop it outside and we'd walk in, but no, just as she had before, Mrs. Wooly drove it right through the hole where the glass doors had been and then we were inside the greenway, in a bus." At some point later on in the book, Mrs. Wooly leaves to go to the hospital, and doesn’t come back. Before she leaves, she puts Jake in charge. Jake is a senior. Once Mrs. Wooly left, there was a thick black cloud of smoke in the air. Once the cloud came in, the children learned that Jake may not be the best person to be in charge.  So they put Niko, a junior in high school, and a boy scout in charge. The cloud was full of chemicals that made people with different types of blood have different reactions. Because of this cloud, the kids had to close off all of the air supply from the outside. "'This is from NORAD: attention, residents of Colorado and neighboring states. at 8:26 a.m. today, Wednesday, September 8 2024, chemical Weapon storage facilities at the North American Aerospace Defense  Command Department have been breeched. Residents in a 500- mile radius of NORAD are urged to get indoors and seal all windows immediately.'" This is talking about the black cloud.

Once the doors and everything is sealed, the 14 kids, Chloe, Ulysses, Max, Caroline, Henry, Sahalia, Jake, Brayden, Astrid, Dean, Alex, Batiste, Josie, and Niko have to stick together to survive all of the catastrophes that happen. Including the cloud. They have to stay in the store for months, and they have to learn how to live like a family.