Beneath the Sugar Sky
Novella 39,193 words Recommended by 6 award/anthology sources
Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children caters to children who went to a portal world, came back, and can’t cope. No one planned on the arrival of a child born in a portal world, much less one asking for help—from a dead person.
Quasar links out; the story lives on Tor Novella, where the author gets the click.