And it still makes sense – or at least as much sense as it’s supposed to consider that many of the doors that the children who come to Miss West’s School have come through have been from worlds with more than a bit of Nonsense in them.Īs does the world of Confection, the place the late and much lamented Sumi came from, and to which she expected to return. I have read the Wayward Children series completely out of order, so instead of the usual 1,2,3 progression it’s been 1,6,7,2 and now three. Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests.Ī tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do. And in a world without magic, she doesn’t have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. But Rini can’t let Reality get in the way of her quest – not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.) If she can't find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more than a world to save: she will never have been born in the first place. 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.

At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the 'real' world. Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, īeneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a standalone contemporary fantasy for fans of all ages. Published by Tordotcom on January 9, 2018 Genres: fantasy, portal fantasy, urban fantasy, young adult Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3) by Seanan McGuireįormats available: hardcover, ebook, audiobook

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire