Wonderstruck

By: Brian Selznick

Published September 13th 2011 by Scholastic Press (first published 2011)

Category: Arts

Pages: 640 pages

ISBN: 9780545027892

Description:
Ben and Rose secretly wish for better lives. 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 worth in symmetry.