“The Search for WondLa” is a children’s science fiction fantasy* novel by Tony DiTerlizzi. It is the first book of the “WondLa” series.

Eva has grown up in an underground shelter*, with only a robot* Muthr for a parent. She is training for life in the outside world, but is never allowed to go there — until a mysterious* attacker destroys her home and she must escape alone into the world above.

Upon seeing the outside world for the first time she remarks that it is nothing like the world she had been brought up in, encountering many dangerous and alien* species of plants and animals that her Omnipod device fails to identify.

After Eva reunites with Muthr, the group has several more encounters with aliens, in which Eva is nearly embalmed* for display at the royal museum. While in the museum she learns that the life forms of this planet arrived long ago on a dead world that they “reawakened” for their own use. She also discovers many ancient human artifacts* and learns of a ruined human civilization*, which lies beyond a dangerous desert.(SD-Agencies)