It's "The Breakfast Club" meets "The Day After Tomorrow"! Or pretty close, anyway. "Trapped" is a brief but powerful young adult novel that managed to surprise me by not following the cliched storylines anyone would predict. What starts off as a snowstorm that causes school to close early, much to the delight of the high school students, turns quickly into an unprecedented winter storm that lasts and lasts, trapping seven students inside the building with no heat, limited resources, a collapsing roof, and -- horrors -- no cell phone reception. The characters are nicely developed, and every time I thought we were veering off into jock/pretty girl/bully stereotypes, the author managed to take them in a slightly different direction. The sense of impending doom builds slowly, as the kids realize that yes, they're trapped, no, no one knows they're still at the school, and worst of all, there's a good chance that most of their family members are in just as much peril as they are. Despite sitting in my warmy comfy house in the month of August, I was chilled all the way through by the time I finished. Tension-filled and well-written, "Trapped" is a young adult novel that I can definitely recommend.