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    Wonder at the Edge of the World
    Audiobook8 hours

    Wonder at the Edge of the World

    Written by Nicole Helget

    Narrated by Thérèse Plummer

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    About this audiobook

    In this captivating quest that spans the globe, a young girl who wants to know everything challenges her assumptions about family, loyalty, 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 nineteenth century. She knows every specimen and rare artifact that her explorer father hid deep in a cave before he died, and she feels a great responsibility to protect the objects (particularly a mesmerizing and dangerous one called Medicine Head) from a wicked Navy captain who would use it for evil. Now she and her friend Eustace, a runaway slave, must set out on a sweeping adventure by land and by sea to the only place where no one will ever find the cursed relic....
    In this captivating quest that spans the globe, a young girl who wants to know everything challenges her assumptions about family, loyalty, and friendship as she fights to save her father's legacy--and to begin creating her own.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateApr 14, 2015
    ISBN9781478931270
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    • 2/5
      Hallelujah Wonder is not just a Mary Sue, she is a condescending know-it-all. The book itself is written in such a way that the reader gets the feeling that the author thinks her readers are idiots. Most of the supporting characters are mere sketches, rather than fully-formed. At a time of more attention being paid to the diversity of characters in books for younger readers, it's a especially unfortunate that the characters of color are all relegated to supporting roles and have little or no agency of their own. All of this is a shame because the adventure of the plot and the characters of Eustace and Nova are compelling enough that I could see the potential for a really good middle-grade novel buried under the shortcomings. I wish the editor of this book had helped Ms. Helget correct some of these flaws, because I would have loved to read the novel this could have been.

    • 4/5
      In an author's note she indicates that a few years back she and a friend were talking about the need for a young persons' book with a strong female protagonist. Apparently she is out of touch with what is available today or doesn't remember the two literary Alices, Nancy Drew, etc. That said, this book should be popular with the young audience intended. The plot involves Hallelujah Wonder taking a shrunken head with magical powers that her explorer had obtained in his world travels from her home in Kansas to Antarctica (Don't ask me why). There is the obligatory villain trying to steal it away from her. Although the plot is preposterous the book moves along swiftly and I think the ten to twelve year old girl audience will enjoy it.

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