This pleasantly weird story follows a girl (raised in a nearly silent monastery) who bicycles across the country on no less than two different talking bikes. 

Where the Woods End

by Charlotte Salter

An suitably creepy book in which a young girl, Kestrel, has been trained her whole life to fight the monsters that dwell in the woods outside her village, including the "grabbers" that stalk certain villagers.  Bonus points for the fact that Kestrel's weapon of choice is a sharpened spoon.