The Night Children

Reed, Kit

ISBN 10: 076532038X / ISBN 13: 9780765320384

Published by Starscape, 2008

About this Item

USED Good Former Hardcover Library book dust jacket in Mylar cover. It has normal library markings including card holder/reference sticker and library call number on spine. Has school and/or library name blacked out with marker on white page edges, cover and/or inside of book and with white black out stickers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Night Children
• Publisher: Starscape
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076532038X
• ISBN 13: 9780765320384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Inside the Castertown MegaMall, the biggest mall in the world, live the night children—runaways, abandoned kids, kids who got lost and were never found. They only come out at night, after all the shoppers are gone.

When thirteen-year-old Jule Devereaux visits the mall after the mysterious disappearance of her aunt, she becomes a pawn in the war between two gangs of night children: the Castertown Crazies, led by the stalwart Tick Stiles, and the Dingos, whose leader is the batty Burt Arno. What the night children don’t realize is that the megalomaniacal owner of the MegaMall, billionaire Amos Zozz, knows all about them. To him, they are vermin—“rats” living in his beautiful mall—and he has plans to exterminate them. Julie, Tick, and Burt must join forces if they want to survive.…

About the Author

KIT REED is the author of the Alex Award–winning Thinner Than Thou and many other novels. Reed has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and collections of her short fiction have been finalists for the James W. Tiptree Award. She lives in Middletown, Connecticut where she is Resident Writer at Wesleyan University. The Night Children is her first book for young readers.