Wonder #1
YA Contemporary Realistic Fiction
Random House
March 1, 2012
EPUB
320
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August Pullman, Olivia Pullman, Jackalope Will, Julian Albans, Summer Dawson
Upper Manhattan, New York (United States)
Josette Frank Award (2013), West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA) for Younger Readers (2013), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (2014), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Preis der Jugendjury (2014), New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award for Children (2014) Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature (2013), NAIBA Book of the Year for Middle Readers (2012), Waterstones Children's Book Prize (2013), Washington State Sasquatch Award Nominee (2015), Bluestem Book Award (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Middle Grade & Children's (2012), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2013), James Cook Book Award Honorable Book (2013), North Carolina Children's Book Award (2014), Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera independiente (2012) ..
'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.
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