25 Top novella books like Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5) by Seanan McGuire

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Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.02

Format: 32 pages, ebook

In the course of every great adventure there are multiple side-quests. All too often these go unrep…

"All stories are weapons, and children’s stories are doubly so, for children have not yet learned how to be careful."

-Seanan McGuire, Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

If you liked the novella plot in Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5) by Seanan McGuire , here is a list of 25 books like this:

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1. Tattoo (Tattoo, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Bailey Morgan isn't the type of girl who shows a lot of skin, but somehow, she ends up in a dressin… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Tattoo (Tattoo, #1) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • young adult
Cover of Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

2. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

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3. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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4. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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5. On the Fox Roads

By: Nghi Vo

4.04

Format: 29 pages, ebook

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's On the Fox Roads book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • magical realism
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) by Nghi Vo

6. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) by T. Kingfisher

7. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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8. Under the Smokestrewn Sky (The Up-and-Under, #4)

By: A. Deborah Baker

3.99

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

The end of the improbable road. Since stumbling from their world into the Up-and-Under, Avery an… read more

Similar categories in A. Deborah Baker's Under the Smokestrewn Sky (The Up-and-Under, #4) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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9. Along the Saltwise Sea (The Up-and-Under, #2)

By: A. Deborah Baker

3.88

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

After climbing Over the Woodward Wall and making their way across the forest, Avery and Zib found t… read more

Similar categories in A. Deborah Baker's Along the Saltwise Sea (The Up-and-Under, #2) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) by Alix E. Harrow

10. A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured … read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You have to make the best of whatever story you were born into, and if your story happens to suck ass, well, maybe you can do some good before you go."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"everybody knows that happily is never really ever after. The truth is buried in the phrase itself, if you look it up. The original version was “happy in the ever after,"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"The mirror showed me you, out of all the possible people in all the universes,' It sounds almost like an apology. 'Why?' 'Well, what were you doing at the time?' 'I was looking into the mirror, obvio…"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

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11. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

12. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Even Though I Knew the End book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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13. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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14. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

By: Nghi Vo

4.18

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ach… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Oh yes. Some people are just more . . . edible than others if you are a tiger."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"She killed, for she was angry, and she did not eat what she killed, for she was heartsick."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"Your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"Now your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

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15. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

By: Nghi Vo

3.95

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

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16. The Angel of Khan el-Khalili (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.2)

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.94

Format: 32 pages, ebook

A girl visits a bazaar in Cairo, seeking a favor from a mysterious angelic being. This story fir… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Angel of Khan el-Khalili (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.2) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. Into the Windwracked Wilds (The Up-and-Under, #3)

By: A. Deborah Baker

4.00

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

Adventurous readers of Kelly Barnhill and Cat Valente's Fairyland books will be sure to soar among … read more

Similar categories in A. Deborah Baker's Into the Windwracked Wilds (The Up-and-Under, #3) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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18. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

Similar categories in Becky Chambers's A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

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19. Garlic and the Witch

By: Bree Paulsen

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Bree Paulsen's brave little protagonist, Garlic, is back in this charmingly illustrated standalone … read more

Similar categories in Bree Paulsen's Garlic and the Witch book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
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20. Salt Water

By: Eugenia Triantafyllou

3.62

Format: 18 pages, ebook

While all her friends’ fish are changing into mermaids, is 12-year-old Anissa's fish becoming somet… read more

Similar categories in Eugenia Triantafyllou's Salt Water book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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21. The Dark House

By: A.C. Wise

3.20

Format: 22 pages, ebook

A photographer’s obsession with an unsettled subject exposes two friends to a darkness that won’t b… read more

Similar categories in A.C. Wise's The Dark House book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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22. Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

By: A. Deborah Baker

3.69

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

If you trust her you’ll never make it home… Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is… read more

Similar categories in A. Deborah Baker's Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"It's better to forget a home than to lose it,"

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

"Frightened means you've the sense to be afraid, and it's cowards who get things done, more often than not."

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

"Girls who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and learn more than they were ever meant to know."

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

"It's fine not knowing things. Not knowing things means you have room to learn, and learning's about the most important thing there is,"

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

Cover of The Latch Key (Regency Faerie Tales, #1.5) by Olivia Atwater

23. The Latch Key (Regency Faerie Tales, #1.5)

By: Olivia Atwater

3.79

Format: 42 pages, ebook

Lord Elias Wilder, Regency England’s court magician, regularly performs three impossible things bef… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Atwater's The Latch Key (Regency Faerie Tales, #1.5) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • magic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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24. Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.02

Format: 32 pages, ebook

In the course of every great adventure there are multiple side-quests. All too often these go unrep… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • magical realism
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"All stories are weapons, and children’s stories are doubly so, for children have not yet learned how to be careful."

-Seanan McGuire, Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

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25. Unbreakable

By: Mira Grant

4.35

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

The girls of Unbreakable Starlight were part of an ancient tradition of magical warriors defending … read more

Similar categories in Mira Grant's Unbreakable book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Lumberjanes: Campfire Songs by Shannon Watters

26. Lumberjanes: Campfire Songs

By: Shannon Watters

3.90

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Collects Lumberjanes: A Midsummer Night’s Scheme, Lumberjanes: Somewhere That’s Green, and more!CRY… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Watters's Lumberjanes: Campfire Songs book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of The Lord Sorcier (Regency Faerie Tales, #0.5) by Olivia Atwater

27. The Lord Sorcier (Regency Faerie Tales, #0.5)

By: Olivia Atwater

3.59

Format: 44 pages, ebook

My kingdom for a magician! The year is 1812, and Mr Albert Lowe is the only soldier in his regim… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Atwater's The Lord Sorcier (Regency Faerie Tales, #0.5) book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • magic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"It is your job to choose the shame that you prefer, though the ghost of the other one might remain."

-Olivia Atwater, The Lord Sorcier (Regency Faerie Tales, #0.5)

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28. For He Can Creep

By: Siobhan Carroll

4.22

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics be… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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29. Goblins & Greatcoats

By: Travis Baldree

3.87

Format: 25 pages, ebook

A goblin with too many pockets and a disturbing affinity for cutlery, a rain-soaked night, four adv… read more

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Goblins & Greatcoats book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Quince by Sebastian Kadlecik

30. Quince

By: Sebastian Kadlecik

4.14

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Lupe is just your average, insecure, well-meaning, occasionally cranky teenage girl whose life is c… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Kadlecik's Quince book and Seanan McGuire's Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Everyone's had a tortured high school experience. You're not an anti-hero, you just suck."

-Sebastian Kadlecik, Quince

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4.17

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