When Holly arrives in heaven, it turns out her life is far from over: there’s a lot going on in the other world. The place is packed with people and animals, but amid the crowds she meets Frida, who has been there for a hundred years and knows her way around.
Together they set off towards the School for Angels. Because, as Frida explains, if you’re an angel you can go back down to Earth. Holly is desperate to see how her family is doing. There’s only one problem: ever since Bortel has been in charge of heaven, the school has been closed and the connection to Earth has been severed. 

Eleven-year-old Lars cannot bear living in the children’s home anymore, and he runs away. He wants to find his mother, even though no-one knows where she is. Her last letter, which Lars carries with him in his pocket, was sent from India. But India is far away. Fortunately a strange old man comes to Lars’ aid: his name is Kol and he knows a thing or two about herbs, Indian tea and many other mysterious things, including Lars’ family history... On the search for his mother, the boy winds up in Rome – where Roma children take him to their campsite and the sharp-as-a-tack girl Suni helps him some more – and in the end he really does make it to India, where Lars and his friends will need all their wits and courage in order to outsmart those who want to harm his mother.

The two funniest and oldest, yet eternally young, rascals in literary history – a new edition illustrated by Tatjana Hauptmann. The tremendous success of this illustrated version of Mark Twain's ›The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn‹ proved beyond doubt that Tatjana Hauptmann is one of the most talented illustrators of all time.