In the eighth Wayward Children book, we get the story of Antsy, a young girl whose home environment has been increasingly uncomfortable since her father died and a new stepfather came into the equation. When Antsy hits her tipping point and the alarm bells start ringing, she runs away from home and ends up in an eclectic store that she soon learns is a nexus of worlds, the place where lost thing go, with Doors leading in and out of strange and sometimes wonderful lands.
We met Antsy in the previous book in the series, Where the Drowned Girls Go, as Cora's roommate, but what's wonderful is that you don't have to have read that one to enjoy this one, or vice versa. (The back-and-forth between the continuing story and books that focus on specific characters is fantastic, and makes it approachable from many angles.) Antsy's story is uncomfortable and scary and unsettling, a story of childhood and innocence lost, and it's delicately and perfectly told.
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