The bridge
Jane Higgins
High-school student Nik is denied entry into the Internal Security and Intelligence Services and searches for answers while on a mission following a bombing of the school and takeover by hostiles from Southside.
Read Time: ~1.6 hr
Heavenly Village
by Cynthia Rylant (1999)
About this book
Undecided souls who have died while they are not quite ready to go to heaven find themselves in the halfway place known as the Heavenly Village.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraContemporary / Future
Protagonist / CoreHeavenly Village Lead Character
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