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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.
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health, daily living, mainstreaming, Craniofacial Abnormalities, young adult fiction, Mark Twain Award, Special Needs, Fiction - Social Themes - Special Needs, Diseases Illnesses & Injuries, Fiction - Health & Daily Living - Diseases Illnesses & Injuries, Fiction - School & Education, Self-acceptance, Human Abnormalities, Middle schools, New York Times bestseller, nyt:chapter_books=2012-02-25, Juvenile fiction, face abnormalities, personal beauty, body image, Spanish language materials, Escuelas, Padres e hijos, Aprobación de sí mismo, Divorcio, Deformidades, Ficción juvenil, Hermanos y hermanas, Psychology, Health & Daily Living, Divorce, School & Education, Disabled Children, Fiction, Private schools, Birth defects, Family Relations, Brothers and sisters, Parent and child, Students, Social Themes, Mainstreaming (Education), Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries, Children with disabilities, Multiple Abnormalities, Schools, Children's fiction, Self-acceptance, fiction, Schools, fiction, People with disabilities, fiction, Education Mainstreaming, Large type books, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Teasing, Children's audiobooks, Imagination, JUVENILE FICTION / Health & Daily Living / Diseases, JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education, JUVENILE FICTION / Health & Daily Living / Daily Activities, New York Times reviewed, American fictionPeople
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Wonder
2017-09, Alfred A. Knopf
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Wonder: La lección de August
diciembre de 2016, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (Nube de tinta)
Paperback
in Spanish
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Wonder
2013, Black Swan, Transworld Publishers Ltd, imusti
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Qi ji nan hai: Wonder / R.J. Palacio
2012, Qin zi tian xia za gu fen you xian gong si
in Chinese
- Di yi ban
986241555X 9789862415559
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Rollercoasters Wonder Reader [Paperback] Palacio, R.J
2001, Oxford Schools
paperback
0198391013 9780198391012
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Wonder is a children's novel written by R. J. Palacio,[2] published on 14 February 2012.
R. J. Palacio wrote Wonder after an incident where her son noticed a girl with a severe facial difference and started to cry. Fearing he would react badly, Palacio attempted to remove her son from the situation so as not to upset the girl and her family but ended up worsening the situation. Natalie Merchant's song of the same name made her realize that the incident could illustrate a valuable lesson. Palacio was inspired by Merchant's lyrics and she began writing. She named the book directly after the song and used the song's chorus as the prologue of the first chapter.
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