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My name is August. I won't describe to you what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'
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 Auggie 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's just like them, underneath it all?
Narrated by Auggie and the people around him whose lives he touches, Wonder is a frank, funny, astonishingly moving debut to be read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.
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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 fiction, 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, Human abnormalities, New york times bestseller, Nyt:chapter_books=2012-02-25, Face abnormalities, Personal beauty, Body image, Health & daily living, School & education, Disabled children, Family relations, Social themes, Mainstreaming (education), Diseases, illnesses & injuries, Multiple abnormalitiesPeople
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Wonder: La lección de August
diciembre de 2016, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (Nube de tinta)
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Qi ji nan hai: Wonder / R.J. Palacio
2012, Qin zi tian xia za gu fen you xian gong si
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Rollercoasters Wonder Reader [Paperback] Palacio, R.J
2001, Oxford Schools
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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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