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May Bird Among the Stars: Book Two

by Jodi Lynn Anderson

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While I enjoyed this sequel to May Bird and the Ever After, I didn't like it as much as the first book. The plot seemed a bit insubstantial, really just a series of encounters at various stops in the Ever After en route to North Farm and then back to the Dead Sea. It just didn't seem as engaging a read, or quite as clever.

However, there was a poignant emotional element to it, as May and Beatrice long to reunite with their mothers above all else. And, in contrast, there are some ridiculously funny moments as defences against the nefarious creatures of the Ever After include noogies and musical performances.

I look forward to the next book, but am hoping for a more well-developed plot.
  Bitter_Grace | Aug 19, 2008 |
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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.
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May Bird has always been a bit. . . different. While most of her classmates were riding their bikes, she was running around the West Virginia woods, dressed as a warrior princess with her hairless cat at her side. And while most of her classmates were spending their summer vacations going to 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 phantoms and poltergeists, ghouls and goblins, and 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 her travels will bring her face-to-face with her worst fears: a devious pursuer; a truly horrifying dance party under the sea, hosted by the Bogey (aka Boogie) Man; and the Ever After's terrible ruler, Evil Bo Cleevil. And when all of these things collide, there's no telling who will find courage to make it through. . . or who will be left behind.

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Still trapped in the Ever After, ten-year-old May Bird struggles to decide whether to save the world of her ghostly friends from the evil Bo Cleevil or to return to her West Virginia home.

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