The Ghosts Of Heaven

Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect four episodes, from prehistory through the far future, in this Michael L. Printz Honor Book.In prehistory, a girl picks up a charred stick and makes the first written signs.Tens of centuries later, the treacherous waters of Golden Beck take Anna, who people call a witch.At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the halls of a Long Island hospital at the beginning of the twentieth century, a mad poet watches the ocean and knows the horrors it hidesAnd there in the far future, as an astronaut faces his destiny on the first spaceship sent from earth to colonize another world.Each of the characters in these mysterious linked stories embarks on a journey of discovery and survival; carried forward through the spiral of time, none will return to the same place.The Ghosts of Heaven is a mesmerizing novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick, author of Midwinterblood, Revolver, and She Is Not Invisible.A Michael L. Printz Honor Book"Intriguing . . . [the] sense of mystery propels the novel forward." --The New York Times Book Review"Wondrously metaphysical, Sedgwick's novel will draw teens in and invite them to share in the awe-inspiring (and sometimes terrifying) order and mystery that surround us all." --School Library Journal, starred review"This complex masterpiece is for sophisticated readers of any age. Haunting." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Satisfyingly brain-teasing." --The Horn Book"Readers who like untangling puzzles will enjoy parsing the threads knitting together this corkscrew of tales." --Publisher's Weekly