This book honestly touches my heart. When I was reading this story, I feel really bad for him because, of all the surgeries he had. I read this book more then 2 times. This book also makes me cry at times. I really recommend others reading this book.
Wonder
By R. J. Palacio
Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
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Grades 4 - 7 | Grades K - 1 | Guided Reading: V | n/a | 73053 |
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.
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This book is incredible. It touches your heart in the most unexpected of ways. You never really feel sorry for Auggie...he is a brave and ultimately confident young man with a loving, caring family and a very mature way of seeing the world. I cried at the most unexpected of times and my class of 4th graders never wanted me to stop reading it.
it is incredible!!!!!!!I have read some of it and I
i love the book wonder it rox....LIKE ME!!!!!
I want to read it sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad. It looks like a great book. My mom has a fake leg, so I want to read about others' experiances too.
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good book
love that book
Wonder. It's a great book about showing respect to people with "disabilities", and is just a great book in general. August just like us, and this story has the best. Message. Ever.