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The Girl Who Came Back to Life: A Fairytale

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The Girl Who Came Back to Life: A Fairytale

By: Craig Staufenberg
Narrated by: Dana Kaplan-Angle
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A book about love and loss, and how to live in a world filled with both...

When you die, your spirit wakes in the north, in the City of the Dead. There, you wander the cold until one of your living loved ones finds you, says "Goodbye," and Sends you to the next world.

After her parents die, 12-year-old Sophie refuses to release their spirits. Instead, she resolves to travel to the City of the Dead to bring her mother and father’s spirits back home with her.

Taking the long pilgrimage north with her gruff & distant grandmother—by train, by foot, by boat; over ruined mountains and plains and oceans—Sophie struggles to return what death stole from her.

Yet the journey offers her many hard, unexpected lessons—what to hold on to, when to let go, and who she must truly bring back to life.

©2014 Craig Staufenberg (P)2023 Craig Staufenberg
Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy

Critic Reviews

“I loved this book and highly recommend it. You really have to read it yourself to experience the amazingness of it all.” —Christy Mauerer, Christy’s Cozy Corners

“The Girl Who Came Back to Life is a story that will grab a hold of you right from the first word and it will keep holding on to you long after you have read the last word.” —Nancy Allen, The Avid Reader

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