![]() ![]() ![]() All Ben’s clues come up empty when his father no longer lives at the same address, and the bookstore he visited was closed. Rose becomes even more upset when the local movie theatre changes from written placards to sound, which she can’t hear.īoth Ben and Rose run away to New York City-Ben to find his father, and Rose to track down her mother, the actress Lillian Mayhew. Her father doesn’t understand her, and she hates her tutor, who insists she learn how to lip-read. Meanwhile, Rose feels trapped in her childhood home. His quest becomes more difficult, however, when a lightning bolt hits the house during a storm, causing Ben to lose hearing in his one good ear. ![]() While searching his mother’s bedroom one day, Ben finds clues in a book called Wonderstruck, that lead him on a quest to find his father. The other narrative is illustrated, with minimal text, and follows Rose, a deaf-mute girl living in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1927.īen struggles to overcome his grief for his mother and no longer feels at home in Gunflint Lake, where he is living with his cousins, aunt, and uncle, only a few feet from his empty childhood home. One, written as text, follows Ben Wilson, a young boy living in Gunflint Lake, Minnesota in 1977, who has recently lost his mother in a car accident. ![]()
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