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Wonder
By R J Palacio [2012] Dust cover. Has foxing.
Ten-year-old August Pullman wants to be ordinary. He does ordinary things He eats ice cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary – inside.
But August is far from ordinary. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, he has been home-schooled by his parents his entire life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the outside world. Now Auggie’s parents are sending him to a real school. Can he convince his new classmates that he his just like them, underneath it all.
Narrated by Auggie and the people around him whose lives he touches, Wonder is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to be read in one sitting, to pass on to others, and to remember long after the final page.
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