Inside the Castertown Mega Mall, 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 Mega Mall, 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...
"The Night Children, which follows in the vein of Reed's 2005 Alex Award-winner Thinner Than Thou, is a creepy page-turner delivering biting cultural commentary…. Reed brings her story to a rousing finish that will keep young readers riveted."
Chicago Sun-Times
"Kit Reed's work freaks me out."
Daniel Handler, Official Representative of Lemony Snicket
