Bridge Beyond:
Book One
The first Evergreen Library adventure begins with a whale, a mysterious key, and a broken fairy tale that cannot mend itself.
Classic Stories
Magical Adventures
Real-Life Courage
Friendship & Empathy
Stories and People Grow Together
Long ago, stories and people grew together. Stories helped people remember courage, kindness, wonder, and truth. People helped stories remain strong by living those things.
But over time, something was forgotten. As people forgot, stories began to forget too. Now a new generation of Restoryers has been called. Their task is not merely to save stories. Their task is to help stories become what they were always meant to be -- and to discover who they are becoming too.
BRIDGE BEYOND
About the Book
On Halloween night, Natalya, Easton, and Spencer see a white whale swimming inside Evergreen Library. By morning, the whale is gone -- but a glowing copy of The Three Billy Goats Gruff has appeared.
Inside the story, the bridge is broken, the goats refuse to work together, and the troll is trapped in a lonely loop. To restore the story, the children will have to face the same question troubling their own friendship: can they cross together?
EVERY EVERGREEN LIBRARY BOOK HAS A FREE EDUCATOR GUIDE
What’s in the Educator Guide?
Reading Support
Chapter-by-chapter prompts to help children notice story, character, and choice.
Discussion Questions
Questions designed for parents, grandparents, homeschool families, classrooms, and book clubs.
Creative Activities
Simple activities that extend the themes without turning the book into homework.
Easton, Natalya, and Spencer
Three friends. Three different kinds of brave.
One who chases wonder.
One who runs toward danger.
One who feels the fear — and follows anyway.
Alone, each of them might have turned back on that foggy Halloween night. Together, they stood at a library window and watched something impossible swim past. Now the library is calling them back — and this time, the door opens from the inside.
Their friendship is part of the adventure -- and part of what the story needs restored.
Classic Story Adventure
A familiar fairy tale becomes a living world with something deeply wrong.
Friendship Under Pressure
The children must learn that every voice matters when a team is called together.
Courage That Grows
The story gives children a safe place to practice courage before they need it in real life.
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OneBegin with the Halloween night that changes everything. The whale is only the first sign that Evergreen Library has been waiting for them.
A Peek Inside the Pages
Even the pictures tell a story.
The night the whale appeared…
The book that chose them…
The three goat brothers questioning…
More Adventures Are Coming
The next story is waiting to be restored. Some stories are patient. Others are already calling.
Easton, Natalya, and Spencer are just getting started –and there are books in the Library that need to be opened.
More stories. More quests More courage.
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