Wonderstruck

English language

Published April 4, 2011 by Scholastic.

ISBN:
978-0-545-02789-2
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4 stars (4 reviews)

Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.

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3 stars

Naturally I loved the illustrations. This man has a way with pictures. The story was a tad less convincing-the kid gets struck by lightning when picking up the phone to call his long-lost dad, rendering the child deaf in his GOOD ear? Randomly meeting his grandmother in one of the largest cities in the world, even though neither had met each other before? A little too many coincidences, if you ask me. Granted, it's a children's book, and I did enjoy it overall.

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Subjects

  • Museums
  • Families
  • American Museum of Natural History
  • Deaf
  • Fiction
  • Runaways
  • People with disabilities
  • Diorama
  • History

Places

  • New York (N.Y.)