Companions of the Night
by Vivian Vande Velde

Subjects: Vampires  
Genre: Horror

"When Ian came into Kerry's room to ask for a favor, it never occurred to her that her four-year-old brother could ask her to do something that might get her killed." Kerry is 16 and her brother asks her to go to an all night laundry mat to get his stuffed bear.  It’s all her mom’s fault really.  If she hadn’t run off and left them, taking the washer and dryer with her, Ian would never have lost his bear and none of this would have happened. What results is a nightmare of lying, kidnapping, car theft, vampires, and murder.  This book is about choices.  It’s also about good and evil.  Is good always 100% good or can an evil thing have a shade of good and good a shade of evil.  How do you judge which is worse? Kerry must make some choices about evil and good after the incident in the laundry mat results in the kidnapping of her brother and father.  Is it ever ok to help commit a murder?  Kerry is going to find out for her decisions lead to at least 6 other deaths.

Booktalk prepared by Janice Bailey, East Central High Librarian