What happens to kids who go on adventures to fantasy lands when they return home? Obviously, they tell people what happened to them and then they are treated as mentally ill or as the survivors of such horrific abuse that they made up stories to get themselves through their kidnappings. When they don't recant the stories they may end up in a boarding school for their own protection.

Eleanor West takes in these children. She was one of them too. She takes the children who are desperately looking for a way to return to their lands.
How do you come back from that?

As soon as Nancy arrives and starts to get acclimated to the strange people around her, there is a murder. Since she came from the Halls of the Dead, she's a suspect. When murders keep happening it is up to the students and staff to find out what is going on before the authorities find out and shut down their school.

Read this one for the wonderful language and characters. The students are diverse racially and in their gender expressions. The only thing they have in common is wanting to go back home to the magical worlds they miss.

I loved this book so much I read it once myself and then read it out loud to my husband.This review was originally posted on Based On A True Story