The Replacement

Description:

Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement—left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, he's slowly dying in the human world. Mackie would give anything to live a normal life, play his bass, and find out more about an oddly intriguing girl named Tate. But when Tate's baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures of the Slag Heaps and find his rightful place, in our world—or theirs.

subjects: Brothers and sisters,  Death,  Families,  Missing children,  Paranormal fiction,  Juvenile fiction,  Family life,  Fiction,  Supernatural,  Siblings,  Conformity,  Monsters,  Changelings,  Fantasy,  nyt:chapter-books=2010-10-10,  New York Times bestseller,  Children's fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Missing persons, fiction,  Supernatural, fiction,  Monsters, fiction,  Death, fiction,  Fantasy fiction,  Dead