Midnighters

by Scott Westerfeld

I found this book at the public library and I chose it because it looked sufficiently spooky. The author was well-known to me also, since my daughter has read many of his Uglies, Pretties, etc. series. This book is about a teenaged girl who moves to a new town and discovers that she belongs in a group of people who were born at the stroke of midnight and can thus roam the earth during a mysterious 25th hour. It soon becomes apparent that she has extra powers the others do not, and her life is soon at risk since the others are scared of these unknown powers. This book is Volume 1 in a series of 3.