"Get to the Mountain Place!"With those words, eight kids embark on a terrifying journey to survive a massive nuclear blast that destroys the world they once knew. In the wreckage of their community, without food or transportation, their only hope of safety is to walk to a mountain cabin almost two hundred miles away. But the journeying under gray, radioactive skies brings the kids face to face with death and danger, deprivation and disease and worst of all: the realization that life will never be the same again. Fifteen year old Liam Harper narrates their survival odyssey in this first book of The Doomsday Kids series.Early praise for :"This book is the bomb--terrible, ironic pun somewhat intended!""The story is tragic, the characters are fascinating, the plot is interesting. Folan realistically captured a terrifying experience from the point of view of a teenage boy.""This is a wicked cool book. I cared about everyone of the characters--but I loved Liam the most. Every girl deserves a Liam!" "A true page turner. I just had to find out what happened!"… (more)