TY - BOOK AU - Selznick,Brian TI - Wonderstruck: a novel in words and pictures SN - 9780545027892 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic Press KW - American Museum of Natural History KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Deaf KW - Deafness KW - Deaf children KW - Diorama KW - Families KW - Family life KW - Fiction KW - sears KW - Museums KW - Orphans KW - People with disabilities KW - Runaway children KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - History KW - 20th century N1 - Released as a motion picture of the same title in 2017; Includes bibliographical references (pages 635-637); 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; Ages 8-12; 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 N2 - 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 ER -