num_pages: 260
description: All fifteen-year-old Noah Hipwell wants is to go through high school in peace. Yet he finds himself suspended after a bully pushes him too far and Noahs forced to defend himself. His mother fed up with the schools indifference to his plight pulls him out completely and leaves Noah uncertain of his future while they look for a good and safe school for him.All Dorothy Dot Hipwell wants is to go through single motherhood in peace. Yet she and her son are harassed by weekly phone calls from her evangelical family hell-bent on guilt-tripping them both back into the fold. Then Noahs grandparents ask strange questions about their old van after dropping cryptic references to a group called The Soul Warriors. Fed up Dot takes Noah away for a much-needed getaway only to find themselves suddenly transported to an alternate world where a town called Helleville awaits them and all other condemned souls.Along with warm-blooded living human beings the Hipwells rub shoulders with zombies vampires house ghosts and occasional green vomit piles while picking up the pieces and sorting out what could very well be an eternity in a bizarre fanciful and humorous world of ghouls and banned books.When residents suddenly disappear one by one with no trace and for no logical reason however doubts being housed in an alternate world for their sins are raised and time suddenly becomes of the essence as Noah and the rest of Hellevilles condemned race to find answers to whats quickly turning into a dangerous puzzle.
language: English
title: Helleville
publisher: Queerteen Press