Series
Wayward Children
Seanan McGuire · 1 novel · 12 novellas · 1 novelette · 2 short stories · 2 collections · 2016–2027
Wayward Children is a series of fantasy novellas by American author Seanan McGuire. It takes place at a boarding school for children who have journeyed to magical lands and been forcibly returned to the real world. The volumes alternate between being set at the school versus showing the lives of the children while they were in their alternate worlds.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Wayward Children at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 2010s5
- 2020s13
Shape
1 novel · 12 novellas · 1 novelette · 2 short stories · 2 collections
1 author
reads like:portal fantasytransported to another worldotherworldcontemporaryemotionalyoung adult
Mood
Grim and calm: 47% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book17 of 18 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Down Among the Sticks and Bonesdarkest · most intense
- Across the Green Grass Fieldsbrightest
- Through Gates of Garnet and Goldcalmest