I know I'm not an ordinary ten-year-old kid.
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Wonder
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'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?
--inside cover
Publish Date
2013
Publisher
Black Swan,
Transworld Publishers Ltd,
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Language
English
Pages
368
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2013, Black Swan, Transworld Publishers Ltd, imusti
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2012, Qin zi tian xia za gu fen you xian gong si
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Rollercoasters Wonder Reader [Paperback] Palacio, R.J
2001, Oxford Schools
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Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2012.
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Wonder is a children's novel written by R. J. Palacio,[2] published on 14 February 2012.
R. J. Palacio wrote Wonder after an incident where her son noticed a girl with a severe facial difference and started to cry. Fearing he would react badly, Palacio attempted to remove her son from the situation so as not to upset the girl and her family but ended up worsening the situation. Natalie Merchant's song of the same name made her realize that the incident could illustrate a valuable lesson. Palacio was inspired by Merchant's lyrics and she began writing. She named the book directly after the song and used the song's chorus as the prologue of the first chapter.
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