Beneath the Sugar Sky
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176 pages · Released Jan 9, 2018 · Tor.com
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Beneath the Sugar Sky is a magical, character-driven adventure about friendship and found family centered on a quest to save a world and prevent a character's erasure from existence. The book emphasizes kindness, acceptance, and determination while featuring a diverse cast including LGBTQ+ characters and relationships. While there are some darker themes around death, paradox, and existential danger, plus occasional mild language, the overall tone is hopeful and emotionally resonant rather than heavy, making it suitable for mature middle-grade readers and up.
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A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a Doorway Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Elean... A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a Doorway Beneath 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. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the "real" world. 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. 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. And in a world without magic, she doesn’t have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests... A tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do. Warning: May contain nuts. 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
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- Fiction
- Diverse Characters
- Loveable Characters
- Weak Character Development
- A mix driven
- Strong Character Development
- Plot driven
- Character driven
- Unloveable Characters
- N/A driven
- Adventurous
- hopeful
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