Now, with her friends missing and enemies all around her, May must find her way to the edge of the universe, where night swallows the stars, where allies are few and often have bad breath, where endings can also be beginnings, and where the truest hero lurks in the unlikeliest of souls. Evil Bo Cleevil has made the Ever After as cold as his own frigid soul, and put up a bunch of tacky malls to boot. The spirits have vanished, and the towns once full of every manner of things that go bump in the night are deserted. Only the Ever After isn’t anything like the world May left behind three years ago. Every night she sits by her bedroom window, gazing at the sky and dreaming of another place, wishing despite herself to be back among the ghosts.Īnd then one night she gets her heart’s desire in a way she would never have wished for. Then she went on a long trip to the land of the dead, where ghost towns glowed blue in the dark dusk and spooky specters dwelled in cities on the Dead Sea.īack on Earth at last, May and her hairless cat, Somber Kitty, are now famous, their faces plastered across souvenirs and sportswear that read ‘May Bird Went to the Land of the Dead and All She Brought Me Was This Lousy T Shirt.’ But, finally in the spotlight, May feels more than ever that she doesn’t belong. And when all of these things collide, there’s no telling who will find courage to make it through…Īt Hog Wallow Middle School, May Ellen Bird was always slightly invisible. 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. 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. 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. 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.Ī 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. 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.
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