Wonder at the Edge of the World
- Authors
- Helget, Nicole
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Tags
- adventure , juvenile fiction , family , parents , juvenile fiction , action & adventure , survival stories , juvenile fiction , girls & women , juvenile fiction , fantasy & magic , fantasy , juvenile fiction , social issues , friendship , juvenile fiction , historical , united states , civil war period (1850-1877)
- Date
- 2015-04-14T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 4.41 MB
- Lang
- en
**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.