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Wonder

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‘Wonder’ is the funny, sweet and incredibly moving story of Auggie Pullman. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, this shy, bright ten-year-old has been home-schooled by his parents for his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the stares and cruelty of the outside world.

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ISBN: 9780552565974 Category: Children's - Older Readers Tags: Children's / Teenage fiction: School stories, Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Family issues, Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Self-awareness & self-esteem
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‘Has the power to move hearts and change minds’ Guardian

‘Tremendously uplifting and a novel of all-too-rare power’ Sunday Express

‘An amazing book . . . I absolutely loved it. I cried my eyes out’ Tom Fletcher

Read the award-winning, multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon that is WONDER in this new tenth anniversary edition.

‘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?

A funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut – and a true global phenomenon – to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.

Discover more from the World of Wonder:

White Bird, a graphic novel *Soon to be a motion picture!*
Auggie & Me
365 Days of Wonder
We’re All Wonders

And read more from R. J. Palacio with Pony, an unforgettable new story!

Read a sample here

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Weight 0.264 kg
Dimensions 19.7 × 13 × 2 cm
Author

Palacio, R. J.

Publisher

Corgi Children's

Imprint

Corgi Children's

Cover

Paperback

Pages

315

Language

English

Edition

Reissue

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J

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