Rapacia: the second circle of heck [eBook - NC Kids Digital Library] : The Circles of Heck Series, Book 2

In the second installment of the popular series, Heck, Dale E. Basye takes Milton and Marlo Fauster on a journey that is as clever, as laugh-out-loud funny, and as satisfying as the first. Welcome to Rapacia, where the greedy kids go . . . When Milton escapes from Heck in a soul balloon made of old clothes, Marlo is the only Fauster child left to take the blame. Bea “Elsa” Bubb, the Principal of Darkness, sends her straight to Rapacia, the circle where greedy kids are tormented by glimpses of a just-out-of-reach, glittering shopperвЂTMs paradise called Mallvana. Marlo soon falls under the sway of RapaciaвЂTMs assistant principal, a grinning metal rabbit known as the Grabbit that seems to have plans of its own. Meanwhile, back on the Surface, Milton has his own problems. He is determined to get in touch with Marlo and help her find a way out of Heck. But itвЂTMs hard to concentrate when his body and soul donвЂTMt seem to hold together the way they used to. Will Milton ever reach Marlo? And if he does, will they both end up as pawns in the GrabbitвЂTMs mysterious game? From the Hardcover edition. Formerly dead Milton Fauster tries to save his older sister Marlo from "eternal darnation" when she is sent to another educational level of the Underworld reform school known as Heck