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The Wonderling

by Mira Bartók

Ages: 9+

Published: 2017

Publisher: Candlewick Press

ISBN: 978-0-7636-9121-9

Keywords: Animals, Fantasy, Magic, Friendship, Family

With the gifts of song and true friends, Number Thirteen, a one-eared, foxlike groundling, and other human-animal creatures, escape the orphanage to seek his origins. Detailed pencil illustrations.