| "MAY BIRD & THE EVER AFTER"
Author: Jodi Lynn Anderson
Illustrator: Leonid Gore
Interest Level: Upper Middle Grades (6-8)
ATOS Reading Levels: 5.1-5.8
AR Points: 9.0-12.0 each
Publlisher Recommended Age: 10-14
Publisher: Simon and Schuster/Aladdin
Book Type: Trade Paperback
Pages: 317
Book 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 the 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 horrifyingly evil Bo Cleevil will turn her into nothing. May Bird must get out. Fast.
Book Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review): "Rare fun."
Book Awards:
- IRA/CBC Children's Choices (May Bird and The Ever After)
- Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Master List (FL) (May Bird and The Ever After)
About the Author:
Jodi Lynn Anderson, the national bestselling author of Peaches and The Secrets of Peaches, has lived in Georgia, Costa Rica, and New York, but she currently hangs her hat in Washington, D.C. She grew up in New Jersey, where she spent her time walking in the woods and pretending she was queen. Today she spends her time daydreaming and making things up. |
