Companions of the Night

By Vivian Vande Velde

Subjects: Friendship, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 9, Vampires, Monsters, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 7, Fiction, Children's fiction, Reading Level-Grade 10

Description: When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices. When Kerry's little brother forgets his stuffed bear at the laundry, Kerry ventures out at 11th p.m. to retrieve it for him. The laundry is deserted and kind of spooky, and while she's there three men burst in, dragging a bound and bloodied young man they insist is a vampire. Kerry helps him escape, only to be caught up in a desperate game between vampire hunters and their prey.