May Bird and the Ever After by Jodi Lynn Anderson

Title: May Bird and The Ever After

Author: Jodi Lynn Anderson

Stars: 4 1/2

Description: Most people aren't very comfortable in the woods, but the woods of Briery Swamp fit May Bird like a fuzzy mitten. There she is safe from school and the taunts and teases of kids who don't understand her. Hidden in the trees, May is a warrior princess, and her cat, Somber Kitty, is her brave guardian. Then May falls into the lake, When she crawls out, May finds herself in a world that most certainly does not feel like a fuzzy mitten. In fact, it is a place few living people have ever seen. Here towns glow blue beneath zipping stars and people-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 horrifying evil Bo Cleevil with turn her into nothing. May Bird must get out. Fast.

When May Bird falls into Briery Swamp and is pulled under, by who knows what, and then when she comes back up, is in another world. A world of danger and May doesn't understand what is happening to her.

With the help of Pumpkin, a house ghost, and other friends she meets along the way, May will search for The Book of The Dead and hopefully, she will get out of The Ever After.

There is some violence, one of the bad guys sucks people into nothingness, nothing really gruesome though.

4 1/2 stars!

Natalie