Wayward Children

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Wayward Children
Author Seanan McGuire
Cover artist Rovina Cai
Country United States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fantasy
Publisher Tor.com
Published2016-Present
No. of books9
Website seananmcguire.com

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.

Contents

In 2022, the series won the Hugo Award for Best Series.

Books

  1. Every Heart a Doorway (2016)
  2. Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017)
  3. Beneath the Sugar Sky (2018)
  4. In an Absent Dream (2019)
  5. Come Tumbling Down (2020)
  6. Across the Green Grass Fields (2021)
  7. Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022)
  8. Lost in the Moment and Found (2023)
  9. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (2024)

Short stories

Awards and recognition

Locus has regularly included the Wayward Children books in their year-end list of the best novellas of the year, including Every Heart a Doorway (2016), [1] Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017), [2] Come Tumbling Down (2020), [3] and Lost in the Moment and Found (2023). [4]

Awards for McGuire's writing
YearWorkAwardResultRef
2016Every Heart a Doorway Nebula Award for Best Novella Won [5] [6]
Tiptree Award Honor [7]
2017 Alex Awards Won [8]
British Fantasy Award for Best NovellaNominated [9]
Hugo Award for Best NovellaWon [10] [11]
Locus Award for Best Novella Won [12]
World Fantasy Award for Novella Nominated [13]
2018Down Among the Sticks and BonesAlex AwardsWon [14] [15]
Hugo Award for Best NovellaNominated [16] [17]
Locus Award for Best NovellaNominated [18]
RUSA Award for FantasyWon [19]
Every Heart a Doorway Geffen Award for Best Translated Fantasy BookNominated [20]
2019 Beneath the Sugar Sky BooktubeSFF Award for Short WorkNominated [21]
Hugo Award for Best NovellaNominated [22] [23]
World Fantasy Award for NovellaNominated [24] [25]
2020 In an Absent Dream Hugo Award for Best NovellaNominated [26] [27]
World Fantasy Award for NovellaNominated [28]
2021Come Tumbling DownHugo Award for Best NovellaNominated [29] [30]
Locus Award for Best NovellaNominated [31]
2022 Across the Green Grass Fields Hugo Award for Best NovellaNominated [32] [33] [34]
Wayward ChildrenHugo Award for Best SeriesWon [32] [33]
2023“In Mercy, Rain" Locus Award for Best Novelette Nominated [35]
Where the Drowned Girls Go Hugo Award for Best NovellaWon [36] [37]

Film adaptation

In July 2021, Paramount Pictures acquired the film rights to the Wayward Children series. [38]

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