If that's your, OR if you are into sports or dancing, this could be signs of an injury and you should talk to your coach, nurse, or parents, and get checked out.
If you are young, these may also just be growing pains. And they suck. They normally occur at night when you're trying to go to sleep. I know I had very bad growing pains in my knees when I was in my early teens. My Daddy would come in with a sock and apply ben-gay to my knee and stay with me until it felt better. It was a very painful few years. It didn't happen ever night, just every now and then. I didn't even realise this until just now!! I never thought much about those pains and hadn't thought about them for years, but I remember them keeping me up at night. Asprin never worked right away and the pain was fairly intense (I'd say a 4 or 5 on the pain scale, which is pretty bad for a kid) so that's why I needed ben-gay too.