In this captivating quest that spans the globe, a young girl who wants
to know everything challenges her assumptions about family, loyalty, and
friendship as she fights to save her father's legacy--and to begin
creating her own.
Hallelujah Wonder wants to become one of the first female scientists of
the nineteenth century. She knows every specimen and rare artifact that
her explorer father hid deep in a cave before he died, and she feels a
great responsibility to protect the objects (particularly a mesmerizing
and dangerous one called Medicine Head) from a wicked Navy captain who
would use it for evil. Now she and her friend Eustace, a runaway slave,
must set out on a sweeping adventure by land and by sea to the only
place where no one will ever find the cursed relic....
In this captivating quest that spans the globe, a young girl who wants
to know everything challenges her assumptions about family, loyalty, and
friendship as she fights to save her father's legacy--and to begin
creating her own.