The book The Afterlife Academy, by Frank L. Cole, is about a boy, Walter Prairie, who is killed by lightning and sent to a place called Afterlife Academy. The souls of the dead go there. After scoring unusually well on a placement test, he is sent out as a Guardian Angel, assigned to protect Charlie Dewdle, an unpopular kid who is paranormally obsessed. Charlie has managed to get a book that can open a Gateway that will allow demons to have easy access to Earth.
WhipEye is about two kids, Samantha and Jake, and their friend Charlie, the almost 1000 year old parrot. In the book, they discover the magical land of KiraKu and its inhabitants, the giant magical animals called the Great Ones and the ancient staff, WhipEye.
