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Apparently, when I have no school to do but yet need something to do - I do sort-of school anyways. In this case, research for a paper that might never get written, about the prevalence of children's stories in which at the end most/all of the protagonists either choose to leave or are forcibly kicked out of the fantasy land they have found. exhibit a, naturally, being Narnia. I even have a timeline now! For series, the date is the year of the first book's publishing.

1865 - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. English, forcible eviction.
1900 - Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. American, chooses to return home.
1904 - Peter Pan (the play) by J. M. Barrie. English, chooses to return home. (The book adaptation was published 1911.)
1950 - Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. English, forcible eviction.
1965 - The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper. English, forcible eviction.

Anyone know of other children's literature, at any point in time, in which the children find a different world and have to leave it at the end?

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"Only You Can Save Mankind" is part of the Johnny Maxwell trilogy!! Which I loooove. That is the first book, and in the other books they time-travel and hang out with ghosts at graveyards. The time-travel story might be especially interesting for your purposes, that one is called "Johnny and the Bomb".

OH. "Neverwhere" might be applicable, except the protagonist is an adult, not a kid. But it totally sometimes deals with two worlds and returns. I dunno, a lot of stories can be twisted to fit this as such. Harry Potter? A couple of the Sandman arcs? Jumanji? omg I love Jumanji. omg is seized with the desire for Jumanji fic. eek!