Wonderstruck Prakriti Prasad She must surrender her heart

She must surrender her heart to heal a world torn in two

Yet everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer one night while sitting alone on the beach rocks

Enlisting a rag-tag group of conspirators

as "victims" of mass media

Wonderstruck Prakriti Prasad She must surrender her heartBen and Rose secretly wish for better lives. 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