Ben loses his hearing after being struck by lightning. He travels to New York City hoping to find his father, who he believes works at the American Museum of Natural History. Through illustrations, the story also follows a girl named Rose in the past. At the museum, Ben meets Rose, who is actually his grandmother, and she reveals what happened to his father and that they both used to work at the museum. Ben comes to live with his grandmother.

1. My Book Report/Review
Wonderstruck (640 pages)
By Brian Selznick
Report by Lydia
There are two points of view in this book, in which I enjoyed. One point of
view was of a boy named Ben, which is told by words. The other is of a
girl named Rose, told by pictures (you would have to infer what is
happening using the illustrations).
Ben is a boy who is deaf in one ear. His mother got into a car accident,
and his father left to another place, in which Ben finds out about his
father, and believes he now lives in New York, so he finds his dad’s phone
number and tries to call him, but gets struck by lightning through the
power line while calling him on a stormy night. Ben then becomes deaf
completely. Instead, he then thinks that his father works at the American
Museum of Natural History, but when he arrives, he finds a new friend,
instead.
Rose was a girl, and she, too, is in New York. As Ben thinks his father is in
the bookstore and goes there, Rose arrives there, too, as a grandmother
of Ben (They both didn’t know that until they met at the bookstore.). Rose
explains to Ben about what happened to his father, but takes him to the
American of Natural History, and tells him that his father did work there,
and so did she. Ben then lives with his grandmother until he grows up.