R. J. Palacio – Wonder
R. J. Palacio Wonder The main character August (Auggie) Pullman is a ten-year-old boy with severe facial abnormalities. Little kids scream when they see him. Older kids make fun of him and call him a freak. Auggie is home-schooled through grade four, but for middle school his parents decide to send him to a private school, Beecher Prep, in New York City. Wonder is the story of his fifth grade year, told partly from Auggie’s perspective, and partly from the other kids in his life — his sister Via, her oldest friend Miranda, Via’s boyfriend Justin, and Jack and Summer, Auggie’s new friends at Beecher Prep...