The Night Gift is a novel for juvenile readers by Patricia A. McKillip, first published in hardcover by Atheneum in June 1976 and reprinted in trade paperback by Aladdin/Atheneum in April 1980.

[1] Young Joe Takaoto, finding his room and life ugly, attempts suicide and is sent to a sanitorium.

Barbara's high school friend Joslyn relates the story of how the two of them, joined by their friend Claudia (who is shy because of her cleft palate), fix up a room for Joe in an abandoned old shack, painting it and decorating it with windchimes, shells, plants, books and such.

Bringing down a redwood sapling from the mountains the girls get a ride back from Neil, Joslyn's crush.

Christine Mozlin in School Library Journal calls the book "a poignant story" in which "the almost lyrical descriptions of setting and emotion totally involve readers in the plot and in the personal problems of the characters.