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Title: Wonder at the Edge of the World
Author: Nicole Helget
Narrator: Therese Plummer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-14-15
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
In this captivating quest that spans the globe, a young girl must challenge her assumptions about family, slavery, and friendship as she fights to save her father's legacy...and to begin creating her own.
Hallelujah Wonder wants to become one of the first female scientists of the 19th century. Her father was a scientist and an explorer, but his life was cruelly cut short by an evil navy captain who coveted his cache of artifacts. Hallelujah feels a great responsibility to protect the objects - particularly a mesmerizing (and dangerous) one called the Medicine Head - before the captain can succeed. Now she and her best friend, a slave boy about to be sold, must set out on a sweeping adventure by land and by sea to the only place where no one will ever be able to find the cursed talisman: the forbidding land of Antarctica.
Members Reviews:
Thrilled by the Good, Evil, Magic, and Corruption in WONDER AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
In the note at the end of WONDER AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, author Nicole Helget shares that she was inspired to pen this middle grade novel by the question âwhereâs the great American adventure book for girls?â. Her tale is crafted from classic American adventure tropes like journeying, discovery and friendship, as it follows one Hallelujah Wonder and her best friend Eustace from dusty rural Kansas to the bustling sea port of New Bedford, Massachusetts and finally to the icy and dangerous continent of Antarctica.
Lu Wonderâs father was a daring scientist and naturalist who spent more time travelling the globe in search of artifacts, treasures and information than he did with his wife and young daughters. After discovering Antarctica for the US and surviving a confrontation with cannibals, he comes home with a mysterious and magical object called the Medicine Head and with a new enemy: the greedy naval ship captain Cornelius Greeney. The Wonder family flees to Tolerone, Kansas, where Mr. Wonder hides his collection of treasures and tries his hand at pig farming, dreaming of the museum he plans to open one day. But, Captain Greeney follows him and murders him, leaving Luâs mother silent and withdrawn and Luâs older sister, Priss. with all the responsibilities of a grown-up.
Lu, like her father, has a scientific bent, which isnât easy for a girl in the 19th century to express. Luckily, her best friend Eustace, a slave in a nearby household, also has a quick and interested mind. When Captain Greeney arrives in Tolerone and, fanning the flames of tension between the local slave holders and abolitionists, sets the town on fire, Lu knows she has to escape with the Medicine Head. Eustace knows he must escape, period.
Together, they travel to Massachusetts with Greeney hot on their heels and find a whaling ship captained by the elderly and eccentric Captain Abbott. Abbott and his first mate --- a wise, powerful and caring woman named Nova --- allow Lu and Eustace to travel with them to Antarctica. Along the way, the two children learn all about whaling and life at sea and more about Luâs father and the Medicine Head.
Hallelujah Wonder is a headstrong and curious girl and not a character who is always likeable. She is impatient and often condescending to Eustace, who is a gentle and compelling young man. Over the course of the story, both Lu and Eustace change a lot.
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Title: Wonder at the Edge of the World
Author: Nicole Helget
Narrator: Therese Plummer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-14-15
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
In this captivating quest that spans the globe, a young girl must challenge her assumptions about family, slavery, and friendship as she fights to save her father's legacy...and to begin creating her own.
Hallelujah Wonder wants to become one of the first female scientists of the 19th century. Her father was a scientist and an explorer, but his life was cruelly cut short by an evil navy captain who coveted his cache of artifacts. Hallelujah feels a great responsibility to protect the objects - particularly a mesmerizing (and dangerous) one called the Medicine Head - before the captain can succeed. Now she and her best friend, a slave boy about to be sold, must set out on a sweeping adventure by land and by sea to the only place where no one will ever be able to find the cursed talisman: the forbidding land of Antarctica.
Members Reviews:
Thrilled by the Good, Evil, Magic, and Corruption in WONDER AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
In the note at the end of WONDER AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, author Nicole Helget shares that she was inspired to pen this middle grade novel by the question âwhereâs the great American adventure book for girls?â. Her tale is crafted from classic American adventure tropes like journeying, discovery and friendship, as it follows one Hallelujah Wonder and her best friend Eustace from dusty rural Kansas to the bustling sea port of New Bedford, Massachusetts and finally to the icy and dangerous continent of Antarctica.
Lu Wonderâs father was a daring scientist and naturalist who spent more time travelling the globe in search of artifacts, treasures and information than he did with his wife and young daughters. After discovering Antarctica for the US and surviving a confrontation with cannibals, he comes home with a mysterious and magical object called the Medicine Head and with a new enemy: the greedy naval ship captain Cornelius Greeney. The Wonder family flees to Tolerone, Kansas, where Mr. Wonder hides his collection of treasures and tries his hand at pig farming, dreaming of the museum he plans to open one day. But, Captain Greeney follows him and murders him, leaving Luâs mother silent and withdrawn and Luâs older sister, Priss. with all the responsibilities of a grown-up.
Lu, like her father, has a scientific bent, which isnât easy for a girl in the 19th century to express. Luckily, her best friend Eustace, a slave in a nearby household, also has a quick and interested mind. When Captain Greeney arrives in Tolerone and, fanning the flames of tension between the local slave holders and abolitionists, sets the town on fire, Lu knows she has to escape with the Medicine Head. Eustace knows he must escape, period.
Together, they travel to Massachusetts with Greeney hot on their heels and find a whaling ship captained by the elderly and eccentric Captain Abbott. Abbott and his first mate --- a wise, powerful and caring woman named Nova --- allow Lu and Eustace to travel with them to Antarctica. Along the way, the two children learn all about whaling and life at sea and more about Luâs father and the Medicine Head.
Hallelujah Wonder is a headstrong and curious girl and not a character who is always likeable. She is impatient and often condescending to Eustace, who is a gentle and compelling young man. Over the course of the story, both Lu and Eustace change a lot.