Creature of the Night

10 best books like Creature of the Night (Kate Thompson): Boy Kills Man, The Orange Houses, Me, the Missing, and the Dead, Gentlemen, Fleshmarket, Why I Fight, Soul Enchilada, Funny How Things Change, Surface Tension: A Novel in Four Summers, Alligator Bayou

AuthorMatt Whyman
ISBN0060746653
In the South American town of Medellin, where drug dealers rule and hope is scarce, young assassins are in large supply. Take Shorty and Alberto: two hardened best friends from poor homes whose biggest dream is to see a live soccer match. These boys understand that the one true power they will ever possess...
AuthorPaul Griffin
ISBN0803733461
Meet Tamika Sykes, Mik to her friends (if she had any). She's hearing impaired and way too smart for her West Bronx high school. She copes by reading lips and selling homework answers, and looks forward to the time each day when she can be alone in her room drawing. She's a tough girl who never gets close to...
AuthorJenny Valentine
Me: Lucas Swain: I'm nearly sixteen years old and live in London. I was fairly normal until the night I found Violet. Then everything changed. The Missing: Dad. He disappeared five years ago. Nobody knows what happened to him, and nobody cares except me. It's enough to drive you crazy. The Dead: That's...
AuthorMichael Northrop
ISBN0545097495
This debut YA novel combines the wrong-side-of-the-tracks edginess of books like The Outsiders and Freak the Mighty and the searingly honest storytelling of authors like Chris Lynch and John Green.

Micheal, Tommy, Mixer, and Bones aren't just from the wrong side of the tracks--they're...
Fleshmarket
AuthorNicola Morgan
Edinburgh, 1822. Young Robbie is just eight years old when he witnesses his mother’s agonizing pain and then death from the removal of a breast tumor during public surgery at the hands of one savage surgeon, Dr. Knox. The sounds of his mother’s piercing cries haunt Robbie as he and his hapless father...
AuthorJ. Adams Oaks
ISBN1416911774
Wyatt Reaves takes the seat next to you, bloodied and soaking wet, and he is a big-fisted beast. Tell him to stretch out like an X across asphalt and you've got a parking space. But Wyatt's been taking it lying down for too long, and he is NOT happy.

Since he turned twelve and a half, he's been living...
AuthorDavid Macinnis Gill
ISBN0061673013
Girl meets boy at a car wash.
"Dog," she says.
"Dude," he says.

And probably this would have been a sweet teen romance. . . .
If Beals hadn't been sitting next to her in the car.
If Beals hadn't been a supernatural repo man looking to repossess her car.
And to possess her.

David...
AuthorMelissa Wyatt
ISBN0374302332
Remy Walker has it all: he found the love of his life at home in crumbling little Dwyer, West Virginia, deep in his beloved Appalachian Mountains where his family settled more than one hundred and sixty years ago. But at seventeen, you're not supposed to already be where you want to be, right? You've got...
AuthorBrent Runyon
ISBN0375844465
The cottage on the lake is always the same, but Luke is changing. At thirteen he’s excited. At fourteen he’s cool. At fifteen he’s pissed off. At sixteen he’s in love.

Through four summers’ worth of trips to the emergency room, campfires and house fires, parties and feuds with neighbors,...
AuthorDonna Jo Napoli
ISBN0385746547
Talullah, Louisiana. 1899.

Calogero, his uncles, and cousins are six Sicilian men living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana. They work hard, growing vegetables and selling them at their stand and in their grocery store.

To 14-year-old Calogero, newly arrived from Sicily,...
AuthorJoe Jackson
Librarian note: This is the new/alternate cover edition for ISBN13# 9781481240611.

The crack of the bat creates drama on the diamond, but in a girls fastpitch softball league, the drama bleeds off the field and into the lives of the players, coaches, parents, and fans. This book is fast-paced...
AuthorNnaziri Ihejirika
ISBN1460244966
It is the rainy season of 1998. An autocratic and corrupt ruler has just died in the arms of courtesans at the presidential villa leaving one hundred million citizens of Africa's most populous country in comingled states of joy, grief and uncertainty.

Through the eyes of eight fictional characters,...
AuthorLindsay McKenna
ISBN0373618166
Delia Sebastian is a trained historian and psychic. Former army captain Jake Tyler is her swaggering ex-lover, who can read her most intimate thoughts - and desires. Together they will make the risky leap back to 44 BC to infiltrate the court of Julius Caesar by posing as Grecian mercenaries. But with...
AuthorJoshua Edward Smith
ISBN1516825632
Lisa is adrift—searching for connection on social media to compensate for the absence of love and attention in her marriage. But when a dominant married man entices her to become his online submissive, Lisa’s world starts to collapse around her. Could giving up all control be the secret to finding...
AuthorVictoria McKernan
ISBN0375837507
When orphans Aiden and Maddy Lynch first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson in the spring of 1865, they're struggling to survive on their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm. So when Jackson offers an escape – a 2000-mile journey across the roughest country in the world – Aiden knows it's their...
Highway to Hell
AuthorRosemary Clement-Moore
ISBN0385734638
Maggie Quinn was expecting to find plenty of trouble with Lisa over Spring Break. Give a girl a bikini, a beachfront hotel, and an absent boyfriend, and it’s as good as a road map to the dark side. But Maggie doesn’t have to go looking for trouble. Trouble has started looking for her. One dead cow and...
No More Us for You
AuthorDavid Hernandez
ISBN0061173339
For a life to come together, sometimes it first has to fall completely apart.

Isabel is a regular seventeen-year-old girl, still reeling from the pain of her boyfriend's tragic death exactly one year ago.

Carlos is a regular seventeen-year-old guy, loves red licorice and his friends,...
An Off Year
AuthorClaire Zulkey
ISBN0525421599
Cecily has always done everything as she was supposed to: taken the right classes, gotten the right grades, applied to the right colleges. But after a lifetime of following the rules, she surprises everyone by arriving for her freshman year of college . . . and turning around. There are infinite possibilities...
Sight
AuthorAdrienne Maria Vrettos
ISBN1416906576
Fifteen-year-old Dylan has horrific visions of the last moments of a child's life -- a child who has been abducted, kidnapped, or worse. Dylan gives the police valuable clues that help them to find children's bodies, but she keeps the most personal information about these young victims to herself....
The Uninvited
AuthorTim Wynne-Jones
ISBN0763639842
Mimi Shapiro had a disturbing freshman year at NYU, thanks to a foolish affair with a professor who still haunts her caller ID. So when her artist father, Marc, offers the use of his remote Canadian cottage, she’s glad to hop in her Mini Cooper and drive up north. The house is fairy-tale quaint, and the...
Bullet Point
AuthorPeter Abrahams
ISBN0061227692
Wyatt never really thought much about his dad—a hardened criminal, a lifer in a prison somewhere on the other side of the state. But then the economy had to go and tank, and the community had to go and cut the baseball program from Wyatt's high school. And then the coach had to go and show Wyatt a photograph...
Kesän jälkeen kaikki on toisin
AuthorSiri Kolu
Peetulle itseksi tulemisen hinta on kallis. Niin kallis, että sen maksaa kaikesta huolimatta.

Peetu on saanut kasteessa nimen Petra, vaikka Petra hän ei ole ollut koskaan. Ei se pikkutyttö, jonka äiti muistaa.

Syyskuun ensimmäinen Peetu täyttää 18 ja pian sen jälkeen...
Nokkosvallankumous
AuthorSiiri Enoranta
Dharan on aina ollut se jonka harteille kaikki lankeaa, se joka johdattaa maailman vallankumoukseen, se joka korjaa kaiken ja se jonka vuoksi kaikki tuhoutuu. Vayu ei ole koskaan ollut kukaan. He kohtaavat todellisuudessa, jossa aurinko ei ole paistanut enää vuosiin, sivistyksen tukirakenteet...
How I Found the Perfect Dress
AuthorMaryrose Wood
ISBN0425219399
Maryrose Wood follows up her hilarious hit Why I Let My Hair Grow Out with another irreverent, teen angst-filled, girl-power romp.

On a bike tour of Ireland last summer, Morgan Rawlinson fell for Colin, the hunky guide, and entered a portal that turned her into the goddess Morganne. Now she's...
Et kävele yksin
AuthorJuuli Niemi
Kaksi erilaista maailmaa ja ensimmäinen rakkaus

Egzon ei ole käynyt vieraissa maissa. Hän ei ole käynyt edes siellä mistä hänen sanotaan tulevan.

Ada on 15 ja piirtää vasta omia ääriviivojaan, kun ensimmäinen rakkaus iskee. Adan elämää ovat olleet taiteilijaäidin...
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