Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'Īuggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. Read the award-winning, multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon that is WONDER in this new tenth anniversary edition. 'Tremendously uplifting and a novel of all-too-rare power' Sunday Express 'Has the power to move hearts and change minds' Guardian Out of Auggie’s struggles and accomplishments, themes of strength, acceptance, resilience, kindness, and respect leap out of the pages of Wonder, making it an impactful read during Anti-Bullying Week for all children. You’ll join Auggie as he adapts to regular school life, but as you can imagine, that comes with a fair few ups and downs the downs often involve different forms of bullying. He’s so much more than just how his face looks – in fact, doesn’t that go for all of us?! Now, his parents are sending him to a real school and all Auggie wants to do is convince his new classmates that he’s just like them… underneath it all. He has been home-schooled by his parents his entire life, in an attempt to protect him from lots of harsh things in this world – like bullies, who don’t always give people like Auggie a chance.
In Wonder, we immediately learn that Auggie was born with a medical condition that left him with a facial abnormality, which means that he looks different from a lot of other people in the world. Palacio’s award-winning book Wonder, readers will learn a lot about respect and kindness by walking in the shoes of the story’s main character – ten-year-old August Pullman (or ‘Auggie’ for short) who lives in New York City in America with his mum, dad, sister Via, and their dog Daisy. Respect is something we all expect (and deserve) but it works two ways – we have to show respect to others, in return. Not one person out there has an excuse for not showing respect for others. It’s an unkind action that someone has decided to make usually, a physical one (like hitting someone) or a verbal one (like calling someone a mean name or writing something nasty about someone else on social media). Whether you’re the littlest of kids or the biggest of adults, bullying is ALWAYS a choice.
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