No Easy Way Out (Book #2 in the Safety In Numbers Trilogy)

by Dayna Lorentz
Lexile:  710
Genre:  Realistic Fiction

It has been 7 days since thousands of shoppers have been trapped in the mall with no real access to the outside world.  No one understands what is happening...only that people are dying rapidly from a mysterious flu.  The government has left, leaving Lexi's mom, the senator, in charge of trying to enforce law and order.  Supplies are dwindling and people are getting impatient.  No one is sure who they can trust.  Lexi, Ryan, Marco, and Shay, all teenagers, begin to emerge as leaders in the uncertainty.  But even they are unsure of what is going to happen next.