Cadle Sparks Books: 24 books

It's the end of oil. We knew it was coming. But it came so fast! Devlin Quinn turns sixteen the same week that a battle in a distant war shuts off the flow of imported petroleum to the U.S. Gas runs low, then runs out, and soon the highways are empty. And then it gets serious. The grocery...

A dense black cloud boiled up in the southeastern sky. It rose high and fast, like a time-lapse movie of the birth of a thunderhead. But it was no rain cloud. Wholly black, it reached up and up until it loomed over her, blocking out the sun. Somehow, she knew, it was Death coming for her. Pre-med...

A dense black cloud boiled up in the southeastern sky. It rose high and fast, like a time-lapse movie of the birth of a thunderhead. But it was no rain cloud. Wholly black, it reached up and loomed over her, blocking out the sun. Somehow she knew it was Death coming at her. Pre-med student...

A deep rumble in the earth...a screeching noise...and the world begins to shake, throwing people off their feet and hurling buildings to the ground. The New Madrid Fault has ruptured again, wreaking havoc over seven states. Gale, city planner for a small Missouri river town must take charge...

The clock is ticking and a billion lives hang in the balance. A mystery disease strikes a family in New Jersey. Epidemic investigator Glenn Stevens rushes to the site. It's the disease the CDC has been preparing for and the pandemic they've been dreading. As the fatalities skyrocket, the lab...

A dense black cloud boiled up in the southeastern sky. It rose high and fast, like a time-lapse movie of the birth of a thunderhead. But it was no rain cloud. Wholly black, it reached up and up until it loomed over her, blocking out the sun. Somehow, she knew, it was Death coming for her. Three...

Welcome to Idaho City The sign was metal, the words still visible through scorching that had happened during The Event's long fire. The words spoke of the old days, seven months ago, when civilization was intact and the world robustly populated. The sign looked normal--or would have, had it...

A time gate. A team of fossil-hunters. A desperate fight to survive. Park Ranger Hannah Kates thinks that guiding a class of gifted high school science students through a hunt for fossil mammal bones in the Badlands will be a tough day's work. But Hannah is about to learn a new definition for...

Dev and Sierra, who have come of age--both emotionally and as warriors--head down to Payson to spy on the men who have taken over the town. What they find there horrifies them. And Sierra's aggressive streak leads them into a confrontation with these Invaders, one that will put everyone's lives at risk. Can the people in the neighborhood survive the end of oil?

It's the end of petroleum. We knew it was coming. But it came so fast! Devlin Quinn turns sixteen the same week that a battle in a distant war shuts off the flow of imported petroleum to the U.S. Gas runs low, then runs out, and soon the highways are empty. And then it gets serious....

Hunger is an endless threat ten years after the end of oil. The manufactured goods from the old times are deteriorating beyond repair. Deer have been hunted to extinction. Even their clothes are tattered and thin. Worst of all, the weather grows hotter and hotter, the world around them drier and drier. When...

The nearby town of Payson has been taken over by dangerous men. And at this point, they have every reason to retaliate against the neighborhood. Sierra's tactical brainstorm is the best chance they have, and it starts with a clever ruse. Sierra, Dev, and the others need to liberate those under...

Mt. Hood in Oregon erupts with terrifying power. A shock wave slams into a helicopter carrying two volcanologists. A thousand-degree cloud of ash hurtles at hurricane speeds down the mountainside toward two hikers. Suffocating ash rains down on the campsite of a troubled teenager, stranding...

After the nukes fall In a secret biohazard facility, a few people might survive Until a knock comes at the door In research facility hidden deep in the Maine woods, Jenn and her fellow scientists have been trying to prepare for a bioterror attack. But that's not how the end comes. It comes...