Among the Stars
May Bird has always been a bit... different. While most of her classmates were riding their bikes, she was running around the woods dressed as a warrior princess with her hairless cat at her side. And instead of spending summer vacation at birthday parties, May was discovering a mysterious lake hidden among the trees – and stumbling into the land of ghosts, the Ever After.
A fearful and fantastic realm located among the stars, the Ever After is full of all manner of things that go bump in the night. And if May is to find her way out again, she must reach the mysterious Lady of North Farm, who lives in a cold, forbidding land that even the spooks find spooky.
With her courageous (yet melancholy) kitty and a ragtag group of spectral friends she's picked up along the way, May is determined to escape the Afterlife. But first she must face her very worst fears, and there's no telling who will make it through... or who will be left behind.
Please Note: This book was originally published as May Bird Among the Stars.
About the May Bird Trilogy Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Ever After(2005)
- 2.Among the Stars(2006)
- 3.Warrior Princess(2007)
Reading age: 11+ years
This series should be read in order.
Quiet, quirky May Bird discovers a ghostly dimension in this otherworldly adventure from Jodi Lynn Anderson.
Meet May Bird: a very shy, very precocious young girl who wants nothing more than to live in a world where she's accepted and loved. One day while walking in the woods she finds that world – or falls into it, really. Through a pond, May enters the Ever After, a world of ghosts.
Here, towns glow blue beneath zipping stars and the people – are they really people? – walk through walls. Here, the Book of the Dead holds the answers to everything in the universe. And here, if May is discovered, the horrifyingly evil Bo Cleevil will turn her into nothing. May Bird must get out. Fast.
As May journeys through fantastic lands, she gathers an unusual group of new friends who join together to overcome Bo Cleevil and find the way back home.