Wonder

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R. J. Palacio: Wonder (2012, Doubleday)

Hardcover, 313 pages

English language

Published Aug. 22, 2012 by Doubleday.

ISBN:
978-0-85752-113-2
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OCLC Number:
870975865

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4 stars (42 reviews)

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.

--front flap

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Review of 'Rollercoasters Wonder Reader [Paperback] Palacio, R.J' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Let's start with the good: I thought that Wonder was an amazing and nuanced view of the social intricacies from late elementary school to early high school. By introducing multiple perspectives, RJ Palacio has written one of the most insightful pieces about how people inadvertently become bullies, alienate their friends or switch social groups. It rang very true, and more informed than a lot of the non-fiction references about bullying.

I also liked having a book about someone with a craniofacial anomaly. Too often disability characters in YA are completely sanitized: "normal person in a wheelchair!" style. Auggie was a great and honest portrayal of a kid with Treacher Collins. I know many kids like Auggie in real life, and I think this is the first book that they get about them. I liked that she pulled no punches in describing his surgeries, and his difficulty eating and articulating and …

Review of 'Wonder: La lección de August' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

La lección de August es un libro conmovedor y muy necesario. Es maravilloso ver la evolución del protagonista a lo largo de la historia y también la de los demás personajes que lo acompañan.

Me ha encantado descubrir que no hay un solo narrador sino que muchos otros personajes también narran y con ello, los descubrimos a ellos y también profundizamos en sus relaciones con el protagonista.

Review of 'Wonder' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

This story of a deformed boy's adventures in middle school is a must read for young adults! There is a lot of love in it, love for children, love for friends, love for pets, and while the characters do all live in an upper west side bubble they are nonetheless likable.
While some of the characters made my more cynical, jaded side smart, the simple message of the book, as summed up by the fabulous school principal, to be "kinder than necessary" is one that we cannot be reminded of enough, and the content strongly supports any curriculum that empathizes empathy....

Review of 'Rollercoasters Wonder Reader [Paperback] Palacio, R.J' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

J'ai découvert ce livre grâce à un entretien avec l’auteur(e) publié sur Slate.fr. Dès que j’ai lu l’article, j’ai su que j’allais lire ce livre. Je n’étais pas sûr qu’il me plaise, mais j’étais certain que j’allais le lire et qu’il ne me laisserait pas indifférent. Tout tenait en quelques lignes, dans le résumé du roman tel qu’il était décrit dans l’article :

L’ouvrage raconte l’histoire d’August Pullman, un garçon de dix ans au visage très différent – conséquence d’une maladie causée par une malformation chromosomique – et son parcours, qui le fait quitter le cocon protecteur de la scolarisation à domicile pour atterrir au collège et affronter ses hordes de sauvages.



Cette histoire allait forcément me parler. Ce n’est pas mon histoire., mon histoire n’est pas celle-ci, mais j’allais forcément me sentir proche de ce garçon qui ne passe pas inaperçu.

J’ai acheté ce livre le 6 janvier 2013, …

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