The Midnight Children: A Vanishing

What do you do
when strange things happen around you?

The
Midnight Children trilogy is a series of dark fantasy novels for children age
8-13 combining Asian mythology and Gothic elements.

The characters,
ten-year-old Min and twelve-year-old Zak are the main protagonists. In The
Midnight Children- A Vanishing, Zak and Min’s father mysteriously disappears
at breakfast and curious things then begin to happen to them. Min encounters
two small creatures with spider-like legs, a doll that runs, talks and steals
and Shaz, the shaman, who gives her a box with a finger bone inside. Zak is
chased by a strange man on all fours in the shopping mall, flees from snakes
that interrupt his homework and is visited by a ghostly old lady in his
bedroom who happens to love matcha ice cream.

Trying to find their father,
they are transported to an eerie world called the Moonlight Lands where oily
creatures want to kidnap and eat them. The novel concludes with Zak vanishing
one night during dinner.