Wonder

R. J. Palacio

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Random House
16 January 2013

Children's & Educational; School stories (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues: family issues (Children's&YA)

Now an Oscar nominated film starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay.

'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's 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 don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't 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, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's 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.

By: R. J. Palacio
Imprint: Random House
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 266g
ISBN: 9780552565974
ISBN 10: 0552565970
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 16 January 2013
Recommended Age: From 9 to 11 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

R. J. Palacio is a graphic designer by day and a writer by night. She lives in New York City with her family and a black dog called Bear.

Reviews for Wonder

Remarkable . . . It has the power to move hearts and change minds * Guardian * Incredibly charming, brutal and brilliant * Observer * It wreaks emotional havoc . . . To finish it with a firm resolve to be a better person - well, you can't ask much more of any book than that * Independent * When the kids have finished with this, the adults will want to read it. Everybody should * Financial Times * Awesome . . . So authentic you'll swear a kid wrote the book. And yes, that's a good thing * Glamour *

Commended for Berkshire Book Award 2013
Commended for Berkshire Book Award 2013 (UK)
Commended for Berkshire Book Award 2013.
Long-listed for Carnegie Medal 2013.
Long-listed for UK Literacy Association Book Award: Ages 3-11 2012.
Short-listed for Hampshire Book Award 2015
Shortlisted for Carnegie Medal 2013.
Shortlisted for Hampshire Book Award 2015.
Winner of Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award: Children's Book of the Year 2013.
Winner of Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Children's Book of the Year 2013.
Winner of Wandsworth Schools Fabulous Book Award 2013.