Science Fiction
The only thing worse than being stranded away from home during the apocalypse, is being stranded on a cruise ship with mean girls and terrorists during the apocalypse. Or maybe it's having the cruise ship blow up while you're still on it. Basically, the apocalypse sucks.
Life As We Knew It, by Susan Beth Pfeffer;
One Second After, by William Forstchen;
The Stand, by Stephen King