The Search for WondLa

by Tony DiTerlizzi

English language

Published April 11, 2010 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

ISBN:: 978-1-4169-8310-1
OCLC Number:: 464593251

(6 reviews)

Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated with bizarre life forms, a twelve-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out on a journey to find others like her. Features "augmented reality" pages, in which readers with a webcam can access additional information about Eva Nine's world.

1 edition

bee reviewed The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi

Review of 'The Search for WondLa' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Decided to reread a middle school favorite, and it still holds up. DiTirlizzi also wrote The Spiderwick Chronicles (another childhood fave), and suffice it to say, his books have seriously influenced who I am today. The fascinating, imaginative worlds he creates--paired with his beautiful illustrations, are truly PEAK aesthetic for me. Bless the internet archive for having scanned copies (epubs and pdfs dont seem to have the full page illustrations at the beginning of each chapter) so I can binge the trilogy. Onto book 2!

Scopique reviewed The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi

Review of 'The Search for WondLa' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This is a book aimed at middle-schoolers, written by the guy who wrote The Spiderwick Chronicles. I kept seeing this book at my daughter's book fairs, and the artwork and the dustcover blurbs were what interested me.

For adult readers, this may be a bit simplistic in construction, but there's some really good world-building here. By the end of the book, the whole plot seems pretty transparent (for well-read adults, at least), but younger (10-12 year olds) the book has enough sci-fi/fantasy creations to make it a pretty interesting read.