When Milton and Marlo Fauster die in a marshmallow-bear explosion, they get sent straight to Heck, an otherworldly reform school.
Milton can understand why his kleptomaniac sister is here, but Milton is--or was--a model citizen.
Has a mistake been made? Not according to Bea -Elsa- Bubb, the Principal of Darkness.
She doesn't make mistakes.
She personally sees to it that Heck--whether it be home ec class with Lizzie Borden, ethics with Richard Nixon, or gym with Blackbeard the pirate--is especially, well, heckish for the Fausters.
Will Milton and Marlo find a way to escape? Or are they stuck here for all eternity, or until they turn eighteen, whichever comes first? -The author' umpteen clever allusions .
make this book truly sparkle.
---Publishers Weekly, Starred.
