Monument 14

    In “Monument 14,” by Emmy Laybourne, the consumer refuge is a fictitious Greenway store in Monument, Colorado. Set in 2024, the story unfolds in a world where all students have tablet computers that run on an national network; its collapse is the first sign something is awry since, as we learn, “the Network had never, ever gone down.” After surviving a horrific morning school bus crash caused by a freak hailstorm, Dean, a high school junior who is the book’s narrator, and 13 other surviving children find themselves in a state of profound shock, forced to organize a makeshift community within Greenway’s Walmart-like walls. 

    Once inside, they learn via television that a Canary Island volcano set off a tsunami that has taken out the entire Eastern Seaboard of the United States. The eruption also initiated intense storms that have pummeled the rest of the country. And, in short order, the devastation is followed by an 8.2 earthquake, which compromises the seals of Monument’s chemical-weapon storage facility. This causes the release of deadly compounds that, depending on blood type, leave victims paranoid, violent, sterile or dead.

    Dean and two other characters, Astrid and Chloe, have blood type O. Meaning they are violent. Dean almost killed his brother, Astrid went total psychopath and went "AWOL", and Chloe scratched the other kids to death when exposed to the compounds. In the the end these three stay behind just incase the compounds get to them and they kill everyone on the bus.