Wayward Children Books in Order

Nancy has returned from the Halls of the Dead to a boarding school for children who have all come back wrong from magical worlds. Then murder strikes, and the school becomes a mystery as well as a refuge.

Before Jack and Jill arrived at Eleanor West's school, they found a doorway into the Moors. This novella tells the dark, beautiful, and very sharp story of how the sisters split apart.

Rini drops into the school on a quest to bring back her mother, even though her mother died before Rini could be born. The rescue mission is bright, weird, and built on impossible urgency.

Lundy finds her perfect world in the Goblin Market, where logic, bargains, and rules shape everything. But every rule has a cost, and Lundy is heading toward a bargain that will mark her forever.

Jack comes back from the Moors carrying a terrible problem only her friends can help solve. Eleanor West's school is heading out on another quest, whether the rules approve or not.

Regan falls through a doorway into a land of centaurs, kelpies, and heroic expectations. What she finds there is not just magic, but a complicated lesson in what courage actually looks like.

A dark fantasy novella about memory, family, and the things that keep following us. McGuire keeps the scope tight and the unease close.

A short Wayward Children tale that returns to doors, longing, and the strange logic of belonging somewhere the world insists cannot exist. Brief, melancholy, and unsettling.

Cora transfers to a second school for wayward children, one far harsher than Eleanor West's. It promises structure and certainty, but its version of help may be the most dangerous thing there.

Antsy finds herself in the Shop Where Lost Things Go, where childhood losses pile up and every door asks for a price. It is one of the saddest and sharpest Wayward Children books.

Antsy's talent for finding things may extend to doors, which sends her and a group of students fleeing across worlds. Dinosaurs, temptations, and hard choices all arrive along the way.

Nadya, born without a hand and forced into a shape that never felt like hers, finds true belonging in an underwater world called Belyyreka. But even there, safety has limits.

Nancy returns to the Halls of the Dead when a darkness begins killing the living statues there. She will need help from old schoolmates in a world where death is everywhere and answers are scarce.