Growing Up Chapter Summaries

There is a 16 year old boy named Adam. Him and his friend todd are in the library and the power goes out. They think it is a normal power outage but they realize that their phones arent working. Because of the power outage they get to go home from school. They go outside and see that the cars arent working. Jacob goes to his car to check his and his works. They figure that it is cause he drives an old car that has no computers. He pick up his brother and sister who are twin reachel and danny. He also drives todd and a girl named lori home. He realizes that it is probably anythiing with computers in it that doesnt work which means his dad who is a pilot won 't be able to make it home from Chicago.

when he gets home he talks to his neighbor

Loris dad says that people have been trying to break in and steal food and water. Adam and todd decide to stay there the night and watch for anyone trying to break in.they only have one encounter with people trying to steal.

The neighberhood where adam lives is called eden mills. There things are just gatting worse. There are more roberies and fires. Herb decides that they should do a kind of census to see what kind of people they have available to them. They find they have a doctor. Herb thinks maybe theyll ha ve to abandon eden mills because they won 't have enough food to feed everyone but adam says they can make crops in they empty areas but they need a farmer.They go out to see if lori and her family will move into eden hills. They agree to do it right away cause the night before a bunch of people came in and stole everything.

Adam realizes that he can finish his ultra light plane and use it for survailence and to see how the other neighborhoods are. He finishes it. He flies out. He sees that a near by neighbor hood was attacked. Everyone was killed. They think it was done by a rogue military group because they were attacked with military grade weapons. They prepare to defend