Wonder

Wonder

By R. J. Palacio

1862 ratings 4024 reviews 2746 followers
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 7Grades K - 1Guided Reading: V n/a73053

Over 6 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller WONDER and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. 

The book that inspired the Choose Kind movement.

I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.

August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. WONDER, now a #1 New York Times bestseller and included on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list, begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.

"Wonder is the best kids' book of the year," said Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate.com and author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. In a world where bullying among young people is an epidemic, this is a refreshing new narrative full of heart and hope. R.J. Palacio has called her debut novel “a meditation on kindness” —indeed, every reader will come away with a greater appreciation for the simple courage of friendship. Auggie is a hero to root for, a diamond in the rough who proves that you can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.

Publisher: Galaxy
ISBN-13: 9781471350504
ISBN-10: 1471350509
Published on 8/5/2013
Binding: Paperback

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Wonder Wonder was writing by rj.paliaco it is non fiction I would recamend it because it is funny sad instesting true and based on a real story some of the main carachters would me summer august daisy and a lot of other people my favorite characthre would have to be august because he has to go through alot to be the way he wants to be .have you ever made fun of how someone looks and acts well you will fill different when you read wonder you may even get tears in your eyes why? Because this book is so good you will get so attached to it I know I did during the part when /shhhhh/never mind you will see only if you read it so go read wonder it’s a amazing book let me tell you about some of the carhecters first lets talk about august he has to have a lot of surgeries’ lot of people think hes not normal he is its just people judge he because of his face but inside he is normal now summer she is august best friend they meet at school during lunch august makes this club for all the sesons summer got to be in it they became friends

12mira 12mira

I love this book and it is cool

Miranda Miranda

I love this book

1023 1023

love it reading it again.

I'm the 7th grade and I just read this book and it is amazing. It really gets you thinking about how kids with facial abnormalities feel about the way people treat them. I just don't get why people can be soo mean.

whats so cool about this book?

What is so cool about this book? Well, it's from about 5 different points of view, it makes you cry sometimes, and it shows you how cruel some people can be. That's what so cool about it. Then again, that's just my opinion.

I loved this book when i read it in 5th grade

Loved it! I totally recommend this book. And I know many people who do as well!

shayjah shayjah

wonder is are some because my brother had to read it for homework it almost made me cried yea!!!!!!

Amazing. My mom asked to read it after me, and she loved it too.

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