Wonder/r. j. palacio

My name is August.

I wont describe what I look like.

Whatever youre thinking, its probably worse.

Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old.

He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox.

He feels ordinary - inside.

But ordinary kids dont make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds.

Ordinary kids arent stared at wherever they go.

Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life.

Now, for the first time, hes being sent to a real school - and hes dreading it.

All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that hes just like them, underneath it all? Wonder is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.