Les Enfants indociles - La série

Dans l’obscurité de leur chambre, sous leur lit, même derrière une armoire, les enfants descendent le terrier du lapin blanc et réapparaissent… ailleurs. Mais les pays imaginaires n’ont que faire de prodiges fatigués. Nancy y a fait un tour, puis elle en est revenue. Les choses qu’elle y a vécues l’ ont changée à jamais. Les élèves qu’Eleanor West accueille au sein de son école le savent d’ailleurs très bien. Chacun d’entre eux doit se réadapter à ce monde et finit souvent par chercher un moyen de rejoindre le lieu de ses rêveries. Pourtant, dans cette institution qui existe pour les protéger, une ombre se cache derrière chaque pan de mur. Très vite, les meurtres s’enchaînent. Alors, pour survivre, Nancy et ses nouveaux camarades doivent trouver le coupable.

Les jumelles Jack et Jill avaient dix-sept ans lorsqu'elles sont rentrées chez leurs parents. Puis elles ont été envoyées au foyer pour enfants indociles d'Eleanor West. Comment en sont-elles arrivées là ? Jacqueline était la fille parfaite de sa mère, polie et calme, toujours habillée en princesse. Si son éducation était parfois un peu stricte, c'est que la formation d'une demoiselle idéale demande de la discipline. Jillian était la fille parfaite de son père, aventureuse, avide de sensations fortes et un peu garçon manqué. Il aurait préféré un fils, mais on fait avec ce que l'on a. Pourtant, c'est ensemble, à cinq ans, qu'elles ont appris que l'on ne pouvait pas faire confiance aux adultes et, à douze ans, qu'elles ont descendu main dans la main l'impossible escalier...

Les événements étranges font partie du quotidien des pensionnaires d’Eleanor West. Pourtant, lorsqu’une fille vêtue d’une robe de bal en forme de pièce montée atterrit dans la mare aux tortues derrière l’école des enfants indociles, ils sont abasourdis. Et quand ils apprennent qu’il s’agit de la fille de Sumi, morte avant d’avoir pu enfanter, ils comprennent que tout menace une nouvelle fois de s’écrouler…

This is the story of a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should. When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well. For anyone . . .

When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister--whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice--back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world isn't always as permanent as it is here, and when Jack is herself carried back into the school, it becomes clear that something has happened to her. Something terrible. Something of which only the maddest of scientists could conceive. Something only her friends are equipped to help her overcome. Eleanor West's "No Quests" rule is about to be broken. Again.

"Welcome to the Hooflands. We're happy to have you, even if you being here means something's coming." Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late. When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to Be Sure before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines--a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes. But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of heroism are equal, and not all quests are as they seem...

Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've already taken that step by requesting a transfer into our company. There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again. It isn't as friendly as Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. And it isn't as safe. When Eleanor West decided to open her school, her sanctuary, her Home for Wayward Children, she knew from the beginning that there would be children she couldn't save; when Cora decides she needs a different direction, a different fate, a different prophecy, Miss West reluctantly agrees to transfer her to the other school, where things are run very differently by Whitethorn, the Headmaster. She will soon discover that not all doors are welcoming...

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere . . . else. Adventures are always interesting, but they’re not always happy. From the worlds of Wayward Children comes a story of love, of devotion, of bones wrapped in flesh.

A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found. Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. If you ever lost a sock, you’ll find it here. If you ever wondered about favorite toy from childhood... it’s probably sitting on a shelf in the back. And the headphones that you swore that this time you’d keep safe? You guessed it…. Antoinette has lost her father. Metaphorically. He’s not in the shop, and she’ll never see him again. But when Antsy finds herself lost (literally, this time), she finds that however many doors open for her, leaving the Shop for good might not be as simple as it sounds. And stepping through those doors exacts a price. Lost in the Moment and Found tells us that childhood and innocence, once lost, can never be found.

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning series. Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children. When her fellow students realize that Antsy's talent for finding absolutely anything may extend to doors, she's forced to flee in the company of a small group of friends, looking for a way back to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go to be sure that Vineta and Hudson are keeping their promise. Along the way, temptations are dangled, decisions are reinforced, and a departure to a world populated by dinosaurs brings untold dangers and one or two other surprises! A story that reminds us that finding what you want doesn't always mean finding what you need.