She said this one was not quite as interesting as book #2 "May Bird Among The Stars" but she still liked it. Jodi Lynn Anderson creates a fantastic realm that draws kids into it and keeps them on the edge of their seats. VERY GOOD! May Bird and the Ever After May Bird Among the Stars May Bird Warrior Princess Hello, Sign in. That’s not to say that you shouldn’t read that book, and that’s because of the way the author does it differently. Pumpkin is a very cute sounding ghost. Add photo Characters Places Books Creatures Objects Add photo How to … Okay. May is back in the Ever After, reunited with her ghostly friends, and hunted and hounded by her enemies once again. Endings are always bittersweet, but I will never not love this books. Such great writing, especially since the mystery around the Bridge of Souls was built up through the whole book. I loved it to tears (literally) and lent to my two best friends at the time, in succession, and we were all hooked. This story is quirky and funny in places, but also a scary...of course, so was the Wicked Witch of the West - here it is the Bogeyman, who hunts May down with dogs instead of flyi. I also felt it had a kinship with Disney's Haunted Mansion ride (and a huge nod to the world of D&D). Well worth the read and I am on to the next book in the series. ), girl has to hide because she's alive, ghost and cat? May Bird is a young girl who lives in an old home with her mother and cat, Somber Kitty. (characters) (yes a cassjaytuck reference) but i"m serious!! Cartoony cover, colors black and blue. May’s mother wants more for her daughter though and speaks of sending her off to New York City to attend a boarding school, thinking this will help Mays strange behavior. May Bird, Warrior Princess - Kindle edition by Anderson, Jodi Lynn. Cart But the nice thing about time is that it... At Hog Wallow Middle School, May Ellen Bird was always slightly invisible. Book #3. After all her angst about saving the world and being the warrior who rescues the cosmos, it was little cowardly Pumpkin, the house ghost who she told to go hide, who sacrifices it all and saves the world. Buy and send eBooks. :). kids, girls especially, into fantasy adventure. May Bird has to discover who she is. I haven't read it but I am reading book number one and I'm a fan of Jodi Lynn Anderson I love this book you should write 100 of them or infinity. [s], SOLVED. Not a good end for me at all. There, she is safe from school and the taunts and teases of kids who don’t understand her. This really surprised me because of the thing that happened at the beginning. To see what your friends thought of this book. She spends much of her time with her cat in the woods, dreaming of being a warrior princess or in her room drawing pictures of strange creatures. May Bird, Warrior Princess book. Girl transported to the afterlife (land of dead) through portal (lake?) Not because it wasn’t well-written or creative, but because it just wasn’t my kind of story. She's not like the other kids in her class, who think she's just plain weird. He is an ugly, loyal, courageous cat. Girl finds lake(?) This book defines closure. May and Somber Kitty often escape off to the woods of Briery Swamp and play the roles of warriors. Anderson offers young readers a tale of mystery and peril that, though scrambled in plot and characters, keeps a decent pace and oddball atmosphere. I loved it to tears (literally) and lent to my two best friends at the time, in succession, and we were all hooked. I was in shock, then began a frantic search for it. "I'm not alone." Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Refresh and try again. Ok. I can see why my 5th grade girls like it (I'll try to get them to read Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos...reminds me of) and want to read the next 2 books in the series. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. felt a bit rushed in some aspects. After getting a request for this book from a kid who has proven to have excellent taste (she's a regular at the library, and we've done a lot of book talking! Okay. It was well worth the wait, no matter how much I wish I could have read it sooner. It was shorter than the other books, less complex, and completely devoid of the sense of wonder that permeated throughout book one. This was hard to plug through. to search for something/someone (father? I didn't know this book existed until I did a book report on the first. It was certainly original and fast-paced with marvelously described characters both living and dead...not to mention Somber Kitty! 5 mentions J’aime. September 18th 2007 I wish there was an epilouge kind of thing to the story - I didn't want it to end! Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading May Bird, Warrior Princess. And what does this Bogey guy look like? I loved this book! This book was so awesome, too! Middle grade Fantasy series. 20 New Books on Women’s History. Welcome back. The ending seemed so subtle, so complete in it's questions and answers left unsolved, that I didn't question my inner self telling me that it was just a two book sort of deal. May Bird and the Ever After is a fantasy/action young adult novel by Jodi Lynn Anderson.It was released in 2005 and is the first book in the May Bird series. She's not like the other kids in her class, who think she's just plain weird. I write strange and mythical stories about young people. It was published by Atheneum Books.. It’s such a unique adventure, and I love the themes of friendship, love, and becoming. The pines behind her house are her favorite place to explore and escape from the other kids at school who make May feel alone and call her an outcast. I gave it four stars rather than five only because it took me so long to get into it. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 will be long remembered as a Dumpster fire of a year. May Bird and the Ever After (May Bird, #1). Loved it!! (The first time was very long ago) Even though I remembered some detail of the book, I was still absorbed in the book urging myself to read on to find out what happens next. Simply brilliant on so many levels! Welcome back. The pines behind her house are her favorite place to explore and escape from the other kids at school who make May feel alone and call her an outcast. But all of that I expected. Most people aren’t very comfortable in the woods, but the woods of Briery Swamp fit May Bird like a fuzzy mitten. Girl gets stuck in ghost world, wanders around. The ending made me cry hard. UGH! I love, love, love this trilogy. May Bird and her cat Somber Kitty (as opposed to Toto the dog) get trapped in a fantastic world, the world of the dead, where she makes lots of oddball friends as she tries to get back home to her mother. “But I don't want to lose my guts answered Pumpkin ”. But, besides that, it was a pretty good book. I thought Among the Stars was good? But I happened upon it online, bought it, read it, and promptly died and went to the Ever After. finishing it now in my childhood bedroom feels like fulfilling a promise to my younger self and today i feel young and happy and full of goodness :-))), A nice ending to the trilogy, May is great as usual. Whoa did not see that coming! She falls through water and enters a supernatural/ dead world. Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. May Bird Books. May Bird continues her adventure through the Ever After in pursuit of home. Sheila May Bird has 19 books on Goodreads with 196 ratings. After she falls into the lake located in Briery Swamp just outside her house, she finds herself in a world of ghosts, ghouls, and other strange creatures, known as the Ever After. was on par with the second book. Loved this book so much!! May Bird and the Ever After is one of my favorite book series for children. Along her journey May gains many friends that help her find her way, it was very heartwarming to read how May finally knows the feeling of having good friends at your side. Also, Somber Kitty is just the best. Pretty alright. A solid ending to this great trilogy! Hmmmmm...took me a while to get into it. Reminds me of The Wizard of Oz. I was excited to find a book that I was able to enjoy with my daughter. It is a complex story with many layers, some humorous (ghosts of thieves playing practical jokes on one another) and some frightening (ghosts having their souls sucked into nothingness by the evil Bo Cleevil). Livre. But, finally in the spotlight, May feels more than ever that she doesn't belong. But 1 book in this series is enough to give me a taste of it ...I think ;-). She spends much of her time with her cat in the woods, dreaming of being a warrior princess or in her room drawing pictures of strange creatures. 4:58. It is tearing me apart! :) Wait- am I allowed to call creepy books cute? Plus, May was pretty relatable. Along the way, she and her friends encounter all sorts of places and ghosts, from the terrifying to the hilarious. But, I did the best I could. Other than that five stars pumpkin is a huge hero. Enough said. Read 136 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. This book is full of high energy, unique characters, and adventure beyond compare. Just the right way to say goodbye to this series. May Bird is a trilogy book series by Jodi Lynn Anderson begun in 2005, revolving around the titular young girl named May Ellen Bird who lives in West Virginia with her mom and her hairless Rex cat named Somber Kitty. As good as the other two. 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. May's third book was not as good as the first two. Seeing as how it had been out for some time, it was never in any of the sections I look in at book stores. Start by marking “May Bird, Warrior Princess (May Bird, #3)” as Want to Read: Error rating book. “ And then a strong gust blew against her, and her feet slipped just slightly. One day while walking in the woods she finds that world—or falls into it, really. I didn't particularly enjoy the ending of this book. Somber Kitty and Pumpkin give great support, Bea and Bertha step up a level and Lucius is a pain in the ass as usual (even more so this time). Book two, so bad that I came into this book without any hope. But, rotten, it crumbled like paper, and May and Kitty went sliding forward, right through it. The letter leads her into a world that is even further away than New York where being different--being "a live one", might just be deadly for her--a world where the Bogeyman is real; where ghosts are afraid of "people like her." by Aladdin. Let’s just say May Bird is not your average child, she has trouble fitting in at school and seems to be that her Cat, Somber Kitty is her only friend. but i did love the books and its been a magical journey that i loved being part of. i had to read it for a book club during school (bleh!) May Bird and the Ever After is a trilogy about a ten year old girl who one night gets dragged into an enchanted lake and wakes up in Ever After, a place of the dead and a place of danger. I really enjoyed it once I got past the initial slowness and into the action. They looked like blackbirds faliing out through the sky.” ― Jodi Lynn Anderson, May Bird, Warrior Princess But, rotten, it crumbled like paper, and May and Kitty went sliding forward, right through it. There was opening for imagination, there was heart wrenching tears, shock, surprise, God don't even get me started on Pumpkin. When May falls into the lake, she realizes she's entered the land of ghosts-- The Ever After! While reading it aloud to my girls, I often found they weren't even paying attention because they were so bored with it. Sense this is a series you don't get all the answers you have answered yet. A girl is yanked through a lake to a strange other world of the afterlife and goes on an adventure to save others and find her way back home: it was like, “May Bird and the Ever After” is a book that follows the hero’s journey in the sense that it’s an ordinary person who becomes “extraordinary” through trials. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published BD 184,889 views. Learn more. Thirdly, it worked because Bo Cleevil never expected a threat from that direction. Hidden in the trees, May is a warrior princess, and her cat, Somber Kitty, is her brave guardian. But now I can't wait to read the next one. What I was not prepared for: I've never been so sad to see someone live to the end of their book. While this story was a little up and down for me in the end I found myself caing deeply for Somber Kitty, May and Pumpkin. The first 2 books? I love this series; it’s one of my all time favorites. There are plenty of things that you can still get out of it no matter the age; I would recommend this book to anybody who is drawn to the fantasy genre over others. May Bird goes on a quest to get home after landing accidentally in the land of the dead. May turns out to be very brave and her hairless kitty, too. I love it more each time I read it. She writes the characters so that they aren’t relatable to you, but they are relatable to themselves; it’s a hard thing to explain. Écoutez de la musique en streaming sans publicité ou achetez des CDs et MP3 maintenant sur Amazon.fr. I read this for 5th grade Battle of the Books and wrote 25 questions for it. Deliver to your Kindle or other device. This book proves you wrong. Really fun. It is SO much better than the first one. I wasn't a little girl that fantasizes about ponies and rainbows, I enjoyed the dark stuff. May and Somber Kitty often escape off to the woods of Briery Swamp and play the roles of warriors. This is the second time I've read this book. It was certainly original and fast-paced with marvelously described characters both living and dead...not to mention Somber Kitty! My favorite series as a child. Can May prove to herself that she has what it takes to survive, or will she end up. I can see why my 5th grade girls like it (I'll try to get them to read Theodosia and the Se, I read this for 5th grade Battle of the Books and wrote 25 questions for it. May Bird and the Ever After is a trilogy about a ten year old girl who one night gets dragged into an enchanted lake and wakes up in Ever After, a place of the dead and a place of danger. May Bird to Bo Cleevil From May Bird Warrior Princess 1 Overview 2 Early Life 3 Characteristics 4 May Bird and the Ever After 5 May Bird Among the Stars 6 Pictures May Ellen Bird is the main character and protagonist in the May Bird trilogy. But we persevered and worked out way through it so that we could find out the ending to the great plot line set up at the beginning of the book; only to find it wasn't answered, and the book is a series. Highly fascinating read. This book was excellently written, but I don't like how May Bird got snappish with Pumpkin around the end, or the fact that he died. READ. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. I remember buying May Bird and the Ever After when I was 11. 50+ videos Play all Mix - The May Birds 'In This Dream I Had' YouTube; La La & the Boo Ya 'Junglist Soldiers' - Duration: 4:58. When May finally crawls out, she finds herself in the Ever After, the place of the dead. As she wanders into the woods one day she comes across a mysterious lake where she falls into "The Ever After", a place where ghosts and ghouls roam, and where the dead go to live in the Afterlife. May’s mother wants more for her daughter though and speaks of sending her off to New York City to attend a boarding school, thinking this will help Mays strange behavior. So beautiful. I like May better when she's 10, not 13. May bird in m It is still one of my favorites and will always have a dear place in my heart!!! I was surprised there was another book created but I'm glad there was. This was perfectly dark enough for the age I was, and fulfilled my wishes of a dark, but beautiful other world. Book one was fantastic. A place she ought not to be with the ever present bogeyman hunting for 'Live Ones.' There, she is a courageous warrior princess and her Somber Kitty is her brave guardian. Edit. Select quantity. May Bird and the Ever After book. Quiet, quirky May Bird discovers a ghostly dimension in this otherworldly adventure from New York Times bestselling author 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. The May Bird book series by Jodi Lynn Anderson includes books May Bird and the Ever After, May Bird Among the Stars: Book Two (Paperback), May Bird, Warrior Princess: Book Three, and several more. She ventures into the Ever After and discovers what true friendship means. May Bird enjoys exploring the woods of Briery Swamp with her loyal hairless cat, Somber Kitty, and soon discovers a hidden lake nestled inside the trees, beyond the endless briars. So imagine my surprise when, years later I discover that this whole time, there was a goddamn THIRD BOOK! I seriously love this book. All the stars. May Bird is a young girl who lives in an old home with her mother and cat, Somber Kitty. Sister Sarah Joan (Lois Smith) bowls Lady Bird over with this deep question in regards to Lady Bird’s college application essay about Sacramento. I think most importantly this book teaches the meaning of good friendship, the grief you feel when losing someone, and best of all finding yourself and staying true to yourself even when the world around you feels a little unfamiliar. Read 509 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. May bird the young main character is a young girl who gets sucked into the afterlife, where she meets different ghosts and monsters. Afficher les profils des personnes qui s’appellent Bird May. May scrambled to stop herself, but it was too late. Lady Bird may not have a high opinion of Catholic school, but the nuns and priests who work there seem to be full of nothing but compassion and wisdom. We’d love your help. Being in the frenzy that I was, I found May Bird Among the Stars soon after and adored it just as much as I did the fist. Somber Kitty follows May in without her knowing of it. it is the best kid series in my opinion! That’s not to say that you shouldn’t read that book, and that’s because of the way the author does it differently. [s], SOLVED. The characters were clear, but I sometimes got confused with the settings. May Bird and The Ever After by Jodi Lynn Anderson, 2005, Atheneum Books for Young Readers edition, in English - 1st ed. May Bird's cat, a hairless Rex, that May Bird's mother had bought as a replacement for her old cat Legume. (Plus, the main character's name is May ELLEN Bird. When May Bird and her faithful companion, Somber Kitty, encounter the ghostly world of the Ever After, their... Don't Miss These Previous Books in the Series! Its was great that May got to go back to the other world but i kinda thought Pumpkin should had talked to her without the dude. I LOVED this book! The first book was so good, I don't understand how the second and third be this mediocre. Feb 6, 2017 - May Bird series by Jodi Lynn Anderson. I love this book! Two stars looks like an awfully disappointed assessment, but take the rating for what it represents: "It was OK.", 3.5. So there was a very interesting twist at the beginning that I DIDN'T expect. Can't wait for the last one to be in paperback. The night before May is supposed to go off to boarding school she wanders into the woods and falls or more gets pulled into the lake, or should I say “portal to the Ever After”. So, seeking refuge from their taunts and teases, May Bird seeks shelter in the woods. man i cant believe this is the end... when ever you finish a series it feels like your losing your babies! May Bird is now thirteen years old and is struggling with the notoriety her, never finished this series when i was a kid. It was spooky, but in a good way. A young outsider, May Bird is dragged into the underworld- no place for mortals, but with the help of her hairless cat, somber kitty, and an unexpected friend, can she get back home? ), I finally picked up, Hmmmmm...took me a while to get into it. In this strange and frightening world, May learns that, just maybe, she isn't as alone as she thought she was, and she just might find that she's more of a warrior princess than she ever dreamt. Although the girl didn't take to the cat at first, Somber Kitty became completely devoted to her and the two end up close friends by the end of the first book. What happened to the May Bird series? This story is quirky and funny in places, but also a scary...of course, so was the Wicked Witch of the West - here it is the Bogeyman, who hunts May down with dogs instead of flying monkeys. Considering that I don't really like high fantasy (which most of this is other than a brief introduction to May Bird before she tumbles into The Ever After), I must say I was intrigued with this book. All together, a GREAT ending to the trilogy. Even though May Bird has reason to be scared now that she's started seeing ghosts in the woods and in her home, she's more scared of leaving her beloved West Virginia woods. Découvrez The Birds de MAY sur Amazon Music. Being in the frenzy that I was, I found May Bird Among the Stars soon after and adored it just as much as I did the fist. Did the water spirit pull her in? [s], SOLVED. YA/Juvenile: Young girl goes into other mysterious world, encounters Goblins, Black Shucks and has a Black Cat [s], Power, Sister! This book closed a lot of gaps left open in the second book and Somber Kitty becomes a Daddy to ghost kitties...work that one out in your head. We’d love your help. In this book May Bird is whisked off to the land of the dead, called Ever After, and adventures her way across the land, searching for a way home. Quiet, quirky May Bird discovers a ghostly dimension in this otherworldly adventure from New York Times bestselling author 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. Let’s just say May Bird is not your average child, she has trouble fitting in at school and seems to be that her Cat, Somber Kitty is her only friend. A place she ought not to be with the ever present bogeyman hunting for 'Live Ones.' Secondly, it shows that the small one, the weak one, the cowardly one CAN be the hero! Cette Page est générée automatiquement en fonction des intérêts des utilisateurs Facebook, et non en fonction de leurs affiliations avec un tiers associé au sujet. Finally May learns that the only way home is through the evil Bogey’s personal portal, which he uses to scare kids in their nightmares. Her main sidekick is a house spirit named Pumpkin (reminiscent of the scarecrow) who has a pumpkin head and a penchant for strange costumes. Sheila May Bird’s most popular book is My Auntie Susan. This book hooked me so badly that I still cant let go of it and I cried in the end demanding for a fourth book! How does she get to Ever After in the first place? It was cute. May is alive, and must find her way back to the real world and not get caught by the Boogie Man. We read a couple chapters every night and quickly went on to finish "May Bird Among the Stars". I love Somber Kitty. Considering that I don't really like high fantasy (which most of this is other than a brief introduction to May Bird before she tumbles into The Ever After), I must say I was intrigued with this book. This is a fun fantasy, along the lines of Percy Jackson or Alice in Wonderland, but more fun. The night before May is supposed to go off to boarding. Oh my good God. Get a FREE e-book by joining our mailing list today! And then, May falls into the lake. May is alive, and must find her way back to the real world and. Happy Women's History Month! This pains me because I absolutely adored everything I’ve ever read by Jodi Lynn Anderson: the May Bird trilogy was the only one of her works that I hadn’t tried until a couple of days ago. (Maybe I should have, though) I don't want to give it away, so that is why I am keeping it secret, though you'd find out soon enough if you read it. Reminds me of The Wizard of Oz. [ The fact that it was Pumpkin who ultimately saves the world, and NOT May, was absolutely perfect! but she still has some ever after business to take care of! Explore historical records and family tree profiles about May Bird on MyHeritage, the world's family history network. Start by marking “May Bird and the Ever After (May Bird, #1)” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Kitty meets someone new. She seemed braver at age 10. No. See the complete May Bird series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. So that was good. It follows May Bird, a young misfit girl, and her cat, Somber Kitty, into the ghost realm of Ever After. The second Pirates of the Caribbean movie annoyed the heck out of me because it and the third should have just been one movie. We purchased this book "May Bird Warrior Princess" for my granddaughter for her birthday. Meet 10-year-old May Bird, who lives with her mother and a hairless rex cat named Somber Kitty at the edge of a woods in a place called Briery Swamp. May has never fit in with the rest of her classmates, and she's worried moving to a new school isn't the answer her mother is looking for - but when she ends up sucked into the world of the dead, it will take a bravery she thought she had lost long ago to stay alive. I almost wish that I never read it. May Bird lives alone with her mother and her cat, Somber Kitty (a Sphynx cat), on the edge of a wooded swamp in West Virginia.She loves to draw and make believe, but does not fit in at school. This book has been on my to-read list for so long that I've forgotten why it was there, but that's alright: it turned out to be charmingly creepy, and not nearly as juvenile as I'd expected.
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