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Finally used that Christmas Barnes and Noble gift card! ❤️🎁❤️

Loved the disability representation and the interrogation of views about disability, as well as the world-building, but it was over way too soon! I hope Nadya ends up at the school for wayward children in the next book rather than back with her adoptive parents.

I forgot to share another preorder that got delivered!

Ive been reading the Wayward Children series for years so i was excited to see a new one being released.

We‘re having a snow day in Western North Carolina, and Sietje is rocking her new hoodie.

I‘ve mostly been staying bundled up indoors and reading this latest Wayward Children book. It‘s a stand alone about a water world and Nadya, a Russian orphan who was adopted by an American couple and never felt quite like she had control of her own life until she fell through a pond into another world. SMcG delivers another great novella.

The newest installment in the Wayward Children series, and immediately up in my top three favorites of the whole series!

#12BooksOf2024 Thanks for hosting such a fun way to share and reminisce about my favorite reads over the last year! Here‘s to many more amazing books in 2025! @Andrew65

Nadya, born in Russia, adopted to Colorado, falls into a pond & discovers a city beneath The Lake of giant turtles, river songs, talking foxes, & love.

I haven‘t fallen in love w/ a character this quickly in this series since Lundy. I loved Nadya‘s curiosity, her determination, her comfort in her own body even w/ the lack of an arm. & the world! I wanted to sink down into this Drowned World. Immediately want to reread the whole series! 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

This is the book I‘m most excited to get to in December! It‘s an arc that will be published the first week of January!

I‘m trying to be patient and finish at least two of my December arcs first, but we‘ll see how long that lasts. 😅

#WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks

Oh! 🥰 I so rarely get Tor books on NetGalley. It feels so comforting to get the next Wayward Children book. #NetGalley #ARC

Another Wayward Children adventure? Reader, I couldn‘t wait to take the plunge! This time, a door of pussy willows and pond ripples leads to Belyrekka, a Russian water-lore world full of fearsome frogs and courageous turtles, an underwater home that calls to Nadya, a Drowned Girl with a limb difference you may remember from the quest to The Halls of the Dead in Beneath the Sugar Sky. I loved exploring Belyrekka and can‘t wait for the next quest!

Another great world and addition to the Wayward Children series. Wish it was longer.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance copy. Pub date: January 7, 2025

Oh this looks so lovely! #CoverReveal