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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.

Overview
When is a door not a door? When it's a gateway to adventure: when it's the portal that leads you from a world where you never quite fit in to the place where you've always belonged, where you've always wanted to be. When it is the conduit to everything you need to be happy.

When is a door a lie? When it opens again and you find yourself right back where you started...only now suddenly, brutally aware of how much you're missing.

There's a school where these wayward children go, when they find themselves back in homes that will never understand them.

Welcome to Eleanor West's.

Books

 * 1) Every Heart a Doorway (2016): Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back, and enrolled at Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. Darkness lurks around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it's up to Nancy and her new schoolmates to get to the heart of things...no matter what it costs.
 * 2) Down Among Sticks and Stones (2017): Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they were packed off to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. This is the story of what happened first.
 * 3) Beneath the Sugar Sky (2018): When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. But Rini can’t let Reality get in the way of her quest--not when she has an entire world to save!
 * 4) In an Absent Dream (2019): Lundy is a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should. When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well.
 * 5) Come Tumbling Down (2020): Jack and Jill return to Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children, and it soon becomes clear that death is not the end when dealing with the world of a mad scientist.
 * 6) Across the Green-Grass Fields (2021): Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late. When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to "Be Sure" before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines―a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes. But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of heroism are equal, and not all quests are as they seem…
 * 7) Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022): When Eleanor West decided to open her school, her sanctuary, her Home for Wayward Children, she knew from the beginning that there would be children she couldn't save; when Cora decides she needs a different direction, a different fate, a different prophecy, Miss West reluctantly agrees to transfer her to the other school, where things are run very differently by Whitethorn, the Headmaster.

Short Stories

 * "Juice Like Wounds." Tor.com (July 13, 2020)
 * Reprint: September/October 2020 Short Fiction Newsletter. Tor.com (October 26, 2020)

Series

 * Hugo Award for Best Series (2022, Nominated)

Every Heart a Doorway

 * Nebula Award for Best Novella (2017, Won)
 * Hugo Award for Best Novella (2017, Won)
 * Locus Award for Best Novella (2017, Won)
 * World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (2017, Nominated)
 * Alex Awards (2017, Won)

Down Among Sticks and Bones

 * Alex Awards (2018, Won)
 * Hugo Award for Best Novella (2018, Nominated)

Beneath the Sugar Sky

 * World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (2019, Nominated)
 * Hugo Award for Best Novella (2019, Nominated)

In An Absent Dream

 * Hugo Award for Best Novella (2020, Nominated)

Come Tumbling Down

 * Hugo Award for Best Novella (2021, Nominated)

Across the Green Grass Fields

 * Hugo Award for Best Novella (2022, Nominated)