How should this be queried?

I was thinking of how I might put my older middle grade through a second draft. I'm wondering, would a middle grade student be able to place themselves in the shoes of a thirteen to eighteen year old MC?

I'm starting to regret plotting it as three books, as it's going to make it even harder to query.

I still think of it as middle grade Portal Fantasy. But then I've never written about decapitation, gunshots, and quartering in a middle grade novella before. (I've had plenty of references to decapitation though, which I don't really have a problem with.)

That's three 10,000 word books.

I guess I'll hit the library and see what I find. And of course Horror is different from Portal Fantasy in many ways. I used to mainly read stuff like Blood And Chocolate and Goosebumps, none of which are Portal Horror. Horror, but not Portal Horror.

As it stands now: When a boarding school runaway almost commits suicide, he is brought back to life as a cyborg befriending a prostitute and a drug dealer. He seeks the meaning of life in the world of the “Meadow Of Gold”. But a dream-scanner working with the secret police, has other plans in store, seeking to find out how they opened a portal to another universe.

That's as simplistic as I could describe the plot. That's the only book of the length close to pitching as anything.

That's the part I'm unsure, this was the one I originally intended as early YA, with sort of a back and forth between MG and YA in various incarnations over the years.

I think it's more I ordinarily think of myself as a MG writer, so writing a YA on an extreme off chance feels extremely weird. Sort of like the needle in a huge haystack.

I'll try YA then. Thanks a bunch.

It does give me some thought though, I know I've always wanted to try young adult portal fantasy. I guess I'll find some to compare at the library that are current.

Then back to stuff like Flying School House, hopefully.XD

Well it reads like a an anime series. By that I mean, it's three 10K novelettes, but it's more like: Saga 1, Saga 2, Saga 3.

Not sure if that's making sense. Are YA novellas selling in ebook? I might look there I guess. This book was a bit accidental.

It is making my questioning if the others are really MG, I know people read up up to a point.

Just something I noticed, and probably why I've often found my work difficult to categorize: the plots are often about reclaiming lost youth, as suppose to growing up.

Sort of like a coming of age in reverse.