However I found instead that I enjoyed it because it is written with such charm and heart, even in the sad parts. If someone had told me about the topic of this book before I read it, I think I would have mostly chosen to read it because I did not want to walk away from the sad truths and I owed it to people who have similar problems to August. But August is a boy who can't be hushed into silence or invisibility in his world, simply because of the way he looks. Wonder is about something that we don't like to talk about because it is so rare and so sad. This book gives a realistic look at the frankly brutal reality that is a hugely hushed topic in childrens books.

So surely, middle school is the last place he could ever hope to be normal … right? Not only is he nervous for the same reasons as every other child in his new class but because August cannot walk down the corridor without being the subject of stares and cruelty.Īugust lives in a brutal world. When August begins at middle school, he is nervous. What were the chances that Auggie's face turned out the way that it did? The face of a boy who was unlucky enough to get a double dose of a mutant gene that makes him and his family not so ordinary after all. His protective big sister, Via feels angry when people stare and his parents love him yet cannot help but argue about whether August should go to school. Things are tough for August and his family too.

He plays ball and has an Xbox but despite 27 operations, he will never look normal. OL15119177W Page_number_confidence 96.34 Pages 794 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210616153436 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 543 Scandate 20210614140253 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780375504877 Tts_version 4.August is ten years old and he does the normal things that other ten year olds do. Theodore Rex Boxid IA40137203 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:01:10 Associated-names Morris, Edmund.

Wonder by R.J. Palacio