Winner of the 'Best of the Best' children's category at the Independent Bookshop Week Awards 2016.
Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Award Best Fiction for 5-12s 2013 and Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013
January 2013 Debut of the Month Frank, powerful, warm and often heart-breaking, Wonder is a book you'll read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page. This is a wonderful debut from a storyteller with a great future if this book is anything to go by and her characters are intensely likeable.
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Wonder is the first book since The Notebook to make me cry to sleep. So sad, emotional and powerful, this is a book everyone needs to be aware of. August is a young boy that has a health condition, which is why his face looks different than other people’s faces. But he is just as normal and ordinary as any other kid. When his parents decide it is time for him to go to school instead of being home-schooled, he is afraid. Because children are honest, and sometimes unintentionally mean, “When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.” Wonder by R.J. Palacio is just a book that is here to remind us to be kind and to be humble. A book I highly recommend to everyone. I also recommend the movie as well, but only after you have read the book.
Wonder is the first book since The Notebook to make me cry to sleep. So sad, emotional and powerful, this is a book everyone needs to be aware of.
August is a young boy that has a health condition, which is why his face looks different than other people’s faces. But he is just as normal and ordinary as any other kid.
When his parents decide it is time for him to go to school instead of being home-schooled, he is afraid. Because children are honest, and sometimes unintentionally mean,
“When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.”
During this book, we see August’s point of view, his daily life and making friends with Jack and Summer.... Read Full Review
The title and the picture on the front cover sums up the whole book I really recommend it to everyone. Once you have read Wonder please write a review about it including your favourite parts, favourite characters and the rating out of 5.
Wonder is one of the best books I have ever read, it is so lovely, beautiful, heart warming and so much more. I really recommend this book to all ages. R.J Palacio has chosen the words so carefully and thoughtfully that when your reading it you can imagine everything that you have read so clearly.... Read Full Review
'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.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Wonder and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
Wonder features in the following genres: Featured Books for 9+ readers, Featured Books for 11+ readers, Books of the Month, Debuts of the Month, Recommendations, Recommended Children's eBooks, Stories about Family and Friends, School Stories, Film & TV Tie-ins, Gritty Reads, PSHE: Family Issues, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Special features and related items
Wonder is available in Paperback, Hardback, CD-Audio
Wonder was written by R. J. Palacio and published by Corgi Childrens an imprint of Random House Children's Publishers UK
Wonder has 315 pages
£7.19
