Nicole Helget

Wonder at the Edge of the World Nicole Helget

In this captivating quest that spans the globe, a young girlmust challenge her assumptions about family, slavery, and friendship as shefights to save her fathers legacy and to begin creating her own. Hallelujah Wonder wants to become one of the first femalescientists of the nineteenth century. Her father was a scientist and explorer, but his life was cruelly cut short by an evil Navy captain who coveted hiscache of artifacts. Hallelujah feels a great responsibility to protect theobjectsparticularly a mesmerizing (and dangerous) one called the MedicineHeadbefore the captain can succeed. Now she and her best friend, a slave boyabout to be sold, must set out on a sweeping adventure by land and by sea tothe only place where no one will ever be able to find the cursed talisman: theforbidding land of Antarctica.