Down Among the Sticks and Bones [Hardcover]

Winner: 2018 Alex Award
Winner: 2018 ALA RUSA Fantasy Award

Seanan McGuire returns to her popular Wayward Children series withDown Among the Sticks and Bonesa truly standalone story suitable for adult and young adult readers of urban fantasy, and the follow-up to the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List bookEvery Heart a Doorway

Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor Wests Home for Wayward Children.

This is the story of what happened first&

Jacqueline was her mothers perfect daughterpolite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, its because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline.

Jillian was her fathers perfect daughteradventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you've got.

They were five when they learned that grown-ups cant be trusted.

They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death andchoices.

The Wayward Children Series
Book 1:Every Heart a Doorway
Book 2:Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Book 3:Beneath the Sugar Sky
Book 4:In an Absent Dream

McGuire has a miraculous talent for examining adolescent discontent, wedding the strange with the poignant, the fearsome with the fascinating. RTBook Reviews Top Pick, 4 1/2 stars

Beautifully crafted and smartly written, this fairy-tale novella is everything that speculative fiction readers look for: fantastical worlds, diverse characters, and prose that hits home with its emotional truths. Library Journall3Õ