Wonderscape

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By Jennifer Bell
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Gaming and time travel collide in this exhilarating adventure for 9+ readers, from bestselling author Jennifer Bell.
>> A Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month
>> A Toppsta Children’s Book of the Month
>> ""A whirlwind of fun and mystery across space and time."" Thomas Taylor, bestselling author of Malamander
THE GAME IS ON. TRAVEL WITH WONDER.
When Arthur, Ren and Cecily investigate a mysterious explosion on their way to school, they find themselves trapped aboard The Principia – a scientific research ship sailing through hazardous waters, captained by one Isaac Newton.
Lost in the year 2473 in the Wonderscape, an epic in-reality adventure game, they must call on the help of some unlikely historical heroes, to play their way home before time runs out.
Jumanji meets Ready Player One in this fast-paced adventure featuring incredible real-life heroes, from the internationally bestselling author of The Uncommoners series and Legendarium.
""A whirlwind of fun and mystery across space and time."" Thomas Taylor, author of Malamander
“Eight-plus readers with a taste for adventure and science will immerse themselves in the Uncommoners author Jennifer Bell’s exciting new Wonderscape” – ""Books of the Month"", Guardian
""A breakneck sci-fi romp that’s perfect for gamers, puzzle fiends and fact-fans."" Ross Montgomery, author of The Midnight Guardians
""With the mind-expanding wonder of A Wrinkle in Time, the tech-wizardry of Ready Player One, and a generous sprinkling of Jennifer Bell’s unique magic, Wonderscape is unmissable."" Sinéad O’Hart, author of The Eye of the North
""Wonderscape is an expertly crafted, breakneck speed adventure."" BookTrust
""Bell puts a clever and highly inventive spin on the middle-grade fantasy adventure."" The Bookseller
""A fun-filled, character-driven, fast-paced, vibrant story … together with its thought-provoking, science-embracing and hero-referencing narrative, it will almost certainly win both hearts and minds.” ‘Children’s Book of the Week’, Press Association
""A wonderful mash up of video game and history.” Angels & Urchins
Featured in The Week Junior’s ‘5 books for fans of gaming’
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I liked it but it was not my cup of tea
This book is a wonderful, unique, fiction book.This book is about Arthur, Ren and Cecily time travelling into the year 2473 and into the virtual reality game called Wonderscape. My favourite character was Cloud. Cloud is a character can turn into the twelve characters who took part in The Great Race. I recommend this book to 9-12.
It was great.
I thought that this was one of the most funny, thrilling and engaging books I've ever read! My favourite character was MIlo Hertz because he had a funny description and sounded very kind.
The book is about Arthur and his friends get lost in a virtual reality game and they find themselves trapped in year 2473. They need to find Milo Hertz, the creator of the realm keys so he could give them to get out. But first they have to face multiple challenges. My favourite bit was when they did a challenge of the warriors road.
It was so interesting, I read it twice
Yes
This book was a great gaming adventure. The heroes meet lots of different characters while trying to get home and my favourite was a dog called Cloud. I would recommend this book to people who like gaming.
I love this book it has all the genres I love
this a nice book
there is pictures in it
it is fiction
no it is not facutal
i will recammend it to someone
It makes me want to explore more
this is great one of my favourites
Travelling in time and a starter to the book Legendarium this book is a thriller to read that I recommend. It is an amazing book where Ron, Cecily and Arthur go on a time travelling trip to the 25th century in the dangerous tournament Wonderscape where heroes are trapped to play in the competition.
very interesting, would highly recommend.
It was a really good book! My favourite bit was the very beginning, where they found the explosion that transported them to 2473 and the Wonderscape itself! I would recommend it to people who like video games, historical figures and challenges.
My daughter recommended this book after she started to read it at school, as a class reader. I read Wonderscape and then, subsequently went on to read the three Crooked Sixpence books and I’ve just bought the 2nd book, Legendarium. My daughter has been told that they can’t read ahead but the teacher hasn’t made any time for it recently. Think its going to be a summer read… 🇺🇦
Loved all the characters and tales in the book. I would definitely want to meet them if they were real.
Lots of adventure, fantasy and a great way to know some people from the past.
love the three heros recommend to someone who loves traveling through lands really good
Wonderscape is a book about three teenagers getting stuck in a video game and have to beat the game to get home and if they spend to long they end up as slime
A full on adventure story with lots of action. 3 young people who don’t know each other have to work together to find out how to survive, work out what is going on, and get back home. In the process they find friendship and meet inspiring people from world history. Would appeal to people who like adventures, and playing video games set in other worlds.
I enjoyed the conversations between Arthur, Ren and Cecily, particularly when Ren interacts as she is quite grumpy and very practical. The way the children approached problem solving was a nice mixture of instinct and collaboration. Wondercloaks are also a nice touch, a sort of wearable interactive whiteboard. Speaking of fashion, top scientists should always wear fluffy slippers! Overall an enjoyable story with a good sense of urgency and an interesting spin on historical figures.
It was a really good book.
It was descriptive and had lots of small adventures.
It is an original idea and was about three children travelling though this place called wonderscape.
The children meet famous people who have been turned into mimics by another famous person.
I loved the bit where cecily found cloud the mimic!
I loved this book! It was very thick and had lots of chapters,but these are the only bad things about the book. I loved how it was magical but also had historic heroes like Isaac Newton and it was just really cool. I love the fact it was about coming together and having to solve lots of problems and that the main characters became friends and they shared all their deepest secrets with eachother. My favourite character was Ren because at first she was angry,annoyed and a bit scared,but when I got further into the book her personality changed outstandingly. I would definitely recommend it to others aged 10+.
My favourite book of the year! A fantastically exciting story on many levels. A group of strangers find themselves thrust into a virtual reality world where they must solve a series of puzzles, win levels and progress through a game in order to get back home. Along the way they are helped by holograms of famous people as they learn to work to their strengths and work as a team. Highly recommended.
I thought it was so exciting because they travel through time and Milo Hurts got trapped in time.
Cloud the dog was my best, she can turn into different animals.
Yes, I would recommend it to anyone.
This is a great action fiction book that is about a boy called archie, two girls: cecily and ren and their dog, Cloud. I recommend this book to people who read dog man
I think this book is amazing but I only chose this book because I didn’t really like the other books in our class ‘library’.
I liked Ren best because she is the same gender as me and she is very brave and kind (though she did get expelled at her old school).
It interested me because I quite like adventure books and this book was about 3 kids who accidentally discover a portal that leads to another dimension called the Wonderscape.
I would recommend to people who love adventure books.
All the characters where really amazing and funny there was never a dull moment. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes books in a different realm.
Mindblowing!