Down Among The Sticks And Bones

Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best Series
Winner: 2018 Alex Award
Winner: 2018 ALA RUSA Fantasy Award
Seanan McGuire returns to her popular Wayward Children series with Down Among the Sticks and BonesΓÇöa 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 book Every Heart a Doorway
Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor WestΓÇÖs Home for Wayward Children.
This is the story of what happened first…
Jacqueline was her motherΓÇÖs perfect daughterΓÇöpolite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, itΓÇÖs because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline.
Jillian was her fatherΓÇÖs perfect daughterΓÇöadventurous, 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 canΓÇÖt 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 and choices.
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