Washoe County Library System

Life is beautiful, ever changing, sometimes not easy, but always worth waking up in the morning to see what might happen.

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.

In 1972, Flora Smallwood, nine, copes with her parents' separation with the help of her friends, Yury and Nessie, a new pet, and the familiar routines of life in Rosetown, Indiana.

A young girl recalls her childhood days living with her younger brother and her loving grandparents in the rural, southern, mountains.

Text and illustrations describe the sights and sounds of nighttime in the country.