Wonder
R. J. Palacio's Wonder follows Auggie Pullman, a fifth grader with a facial difference, through his first year at a mainstream school. It's a coming-of-age novel that passes the narration around several characters to ask a plain question: is ordinary kindness really as hard as we keep making it?
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The smartest thing Palacio does in Wonder is let Auggie tell us almost nothing about his own face. He won't describe it. He dares us to imagine the worst, and in that refusal the book finds its footing. We meet a fifth grader who loves Star Wars and ice cream and his dog long before we're standing in a hallway watching other kids flinch at him. By the time the staring starts, we're already on his side. So the cruelty reaches us the way it reaches him: sideways, constant, wearing.
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