Wonder at the Edge of the World, Nicole Helget
Wonder at the Edge of the World, Nicole Helget
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Wonder at the Edge of the World

Author: Nicole Helget

Narrator: Therese Plummer

Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/14/2015


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

I couldn't put this book down! I have read reviews disappointed in the main character and the plot development, and while the points are valid, my opinion of the book was different. It is an easy YA read. I found the main character rude and proud at first, but loved watching her grow on her journey.......more

3.5 stars Hallelujah Wonder ("Lou") wants to be an explorer and scientist like her father before they ran off to Kansas and became hog farmers. Lou carefully guards her father's treasures collected around the world and hidden in a cave underneath the flat Kansas plain. When the man who killed her fat......more

Goodreads review by Angie

Hallelujah Wonder (Lu) lives with her mother and sister on the Kansas prairie. Her father was a great explorer and scientist who found Antarctica, but was later discredited by his partner Captain Greeney. Captain Greeney had her father hung and is on the hunt for the treasure Captain Wonder hid away......more

Goodreads review by Brandee

This is a very long book; it took two months for me to read it to the girls. One would think I would've developed some attachment to the characters in so many pages, but I didn't. The nuts and bolts of the plot are that--after her scientist father is murdered--a white girl, a black (slave) boy, and......more