title: Children of the Storm: The True Story of the Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy
author:  Ariana Harner 
description: A story of 33 fateful hours, in which 20 children faced nature's toughest tests.
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  ### Emmy Laybourne
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming
  down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You
  don’t 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 it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to
  wish you’d 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’s 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