30 books that you can totally judge by their covers

Beneath the Sugar Sky – Seanan McGuire

Beneath the Sugar Sky is the third installment in Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series. As a whole, the series chronicles the lives of kids who have traveled through doorways to “fantasy worlds” (think Narnia, only not quite). Upon returning home, they’re sent to a boarding school called Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children, where they’re reacclimated to the “real world.”

Of course, readjusting is easier said than done. But McGuire approaches fantasy stories in a unique way by asking a particularly pointed question: How does one transition from leading an extraordinary life to returning to an ordinary one?

The covers of McGuire’s books are each unique, as well. Each holds its own sort of beauty, despite how different each one is from the others. But Beneath the Sugar Sky certainly pops the most, perhaps because of its bright colors and depiction of the clouds. Given the beauty surrounding it, the doorway in the middle is one most readers would want to step through.