The Night Children
Reed, Kit
Sold by John McCormick, Mississauga, ON, Canada
AbeBooks Seller since 7 June 2002
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine to Fine
Ships from Canada to U.S.A.
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSold by John McCormick, Mississauga, ON, Canada
AbeBooks Seller since 7 June 2002
Condition: Near Fine to Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basket----------hardcover, with dust jacket. The author's 1st book for young readers. The book, in yellow boards with dark red lettering and design on the spine, has very minor bumps to spine extremities, and is near fine to fine. The jacket is not price-clipped, has a tiny wrinkle to the spine top, and is fine.
Seller Inventory # 014034
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.…
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.
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