# Wonderstruck

**Author:** Brian Selznick
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**First published:** 2015
**Page count:** 649
**ISBN-13:** `9780545922067`
**ISBN-10:** `0545922062`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/wonderstruck
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Don't miss Selznick's other novels in words and pictures, The Invention of Hugo Cabret and The Marvels, which together with Wonderstruck, form an extraordinary thematic trilogy! In this groundbreaking tour de force, Caldecott Medalist and bookmaking pioneer Brian Selznick sails into uncharted territory and takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey. 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 i

## Where this book is assigned

### Schneider Family Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2012 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2012 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2012 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Schneider Family Book Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2012 Schneider Family Book Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Family_Book_Award)

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