Title:
Wonderstruck : a novel in words and pictures
JLCTITLE245:
Brian Selznick.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Scholastic Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
637 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780545027892
9780545389853
General Note:
Released as a motion picture of the same title in 2017.
Abstract:
Ben and Rose secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone on desperate quests to find what they are missing. Set fifty years apart, these two independent stories -- Ben's told in words, Rose's in pictures -- weave back and forth with symmetry.
Reading Level:
Ages 8-12.
Middle School.
830 L Lexile
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 5.4 4.0 146551.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.4 4.0 146551.
Reading Counts RC 3-5 5.4 7 Quiz: 54272.
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 5.4 4 Quiz 146551 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 635-637).
Subject Term:
Contents:
Christmas -- Los Tres Reyes -- Blessed candles and a glimpse of family life -- Memories of old family dinners -- Meriendas del Campo -- Bailes de Cascarones -- Holy Week and Easter -- Feast Days and Christenings -- Various religious feasts -- The Portiuncula -- Death of Fray Junipero Serra, August 28, 1784 -- Feast of St. Francis of Assisi -- November Days -- San Carlos Day -- Feast of the Immaculate Conception.