The Wondercurrent, J.R. Parks
The Wondercurrent, J.R. Parks
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The Wondercurrent

Author: J.R. Parks

Narrator: Brady Day

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/02/2021


Synopsis

A young girl, Rella Deveraux-PenSword, is called to protect and defend Hleo: an enchanted refuge for the children of Earth One. Rella must stop a plague of Shadowsplitters, the miscreations of the plagiarist Archimago, from destroying The Wondercurrent: a source of life and hope for all the children under Hleo's protection.

Rella's parents, Winter and Julian, are part of a secret alliance of Storykeepers. First, her mother disappears. Then, a few years later, when her father goes missing, Rella is forced to flee her home in the rural village of Ensea (Earth One). In flight, she is mysteriously transported (beneath her grandmother's green quilt) to the magical world of Hleo. There she embarks on a quest and teams up with a fellowship of four other children: Eurie, Quinn, Scarlett, and The Wooden Boy Sebastian.

Will Rella be able to destroy the plague and help save the enchanted refuge of Hleo? Will she find out the truth about her parents? Will the guardians and the fellowship of children be able to save The Wondercurrent . . . and The Red Notebooks?

About J.R. Parks

Jason (J. R.) Parks is the author of the children's fantasy novel The Wondercurrent. Along with writing fiction, Jason spends his time to teaching English at a liberal arts university in the Midwest and going on adventures (real life and imaginary ones) with his wife, Kendra, and their four creative, energetic, brilliant children. His earliest experiences with writing involved a co-authoring a children's book in his elementary school art class called "Flying Freddy" (a story about a boy who jumped off of his roof after watching a cartoon character do the same) and a small collection of poems he wrote in the fifth grade, mostly about flowers. He has also published multiple non-fiction peer-reviewed essays on teaching, multilingual literature, and early twentieth-century American and British literary magazines. In high school, he dabbled in screenwriting and filmmaking before turning his attention to literary analysis and criticism in college and graduate school. After becoming a father, and spending nearly a decade reading wonderful stories to his four children, he discovered his passion for whimsical and fantastic stories.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Wendy Darling on February 22, 2012

Wonder is one of those rare books that makes you want to hug everyone in it so tightly that they’ll have no doubt about how much you love them…and beyond that, it also makes you want to reach out and hug the whole world. It’s an upbeat, humorous, life-affirming story that deserves to be read—and it’......more

Goodreads review by Rick on December 04, 2013

Ye gods, what a wonderful book! I don't read a lot of realistic middle grade fiction. I tend to gravitate toward fantasy. But this is probably the best such book I've read since Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The main character August (Auggie) Pullman is a ten-year-......more

Goodreads review by Zoë on February 09, 2016

Watch my review & discussion here: [URL not allowed] What a WONDERful first book of the year! I read this book almost too quickly, I wanted it to last longer. This might be technically a children's book, but it really was such a special and meaningful read and I highly recommen......more

Goodreads review by Federico on September 10, 2023

“When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.” 10 years old August Pullman suffers mandibulofacial dysostosis, a genetic disorder affecting his jaw, chin and hearing. Now imagine something really bad and scary, then ten times worse. This is Auggie. Auggie is home schooled......more