Content levels
Trigger warnings
Positive tags
Hero archetypes
Heroine archetypes
Protagonist archetypes
Synopsis
Rigby Rhymes wants one thing out of life: a grand adventure, just like the ones in her favorite books. Preferably one involving secret passageways, magic spells, and dashing, long-haired guys with swords. Unfortunately, she lives in the real world, and no wizards have stopped by to tell her she's the Chosen One(TM). So when she kicks the bucket before even learning to drive, her dreams of adventure die with her. But then, en route to the afterlife, an eccentric angel offers her a deal: if she agrees to enter the story-world of her favorite novel and change the plot enough to keep the brooding villain, Wick, from dying at the end, she'll get a second chance at life. But when snoopy Wick discovers he's a fictional character and tears Rigby's copy of the book in half, he inadvertently stops time in the story-world and attracts the attention of the interdimensional Vices, a book-burning motorcycle gang of Deadly Sins obsessed with eradicating happy endings. With the unlikely help of Wick (and her goody two-shoes fictional crush, Chance Golden), Rigby must return to the real world, seek a mysterious librarian called the Bookbinder, and repair the book before the Vices destroy the story-world-and Rigby's last chance at a grand adventure-forever.
Is Again Behold the Stars appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 10 and up.
A bookish teen dies and gets a second chance by entering her favorite novel to save a character from death. Contains mild peril from interdimensional villains and themes of mortality, but maintains a humorous, adventurous tone appropriate for middle grade readers.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death.
Who'll love this
A book-loving girl literally gets to jump into her favorite story and team up with fictional characters to save their world from destruction.