Wonder – Cannonball Read 17

“When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.”

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

February 28, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Official book description: August Pullman wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things. He eats ice cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary – inside. But Auggie is far from ordinary. Ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids don’t get stared at wherever they go. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the […]

“Kindness becomes a miracle.”

White Bird: a Wonder Story by R.J. Palacio

January 15, 2020 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Julian has a school project, to interview a family member for their biographical story. On a facetime chat, he talks his grandmother into sharing her childhood growing up in wartime France. Hesitantly, she agrees to, and not only to do that but to share parts of her story she hasn’t told before. For Julian and his grandmother are Jewish, and Sara (his grandmother) is nervous about how her history seems to be repeating. We meet her as a child along with her impressive parents: her […]

A non fiction Wonder

May 16, 2018 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

Robert Hoge was born to a suburban Australian family in 1972; he had a large tumor on his face and malformed legs most likely the result of his mother taking medication before she knew she was expecting. At first his mother, who had four other children at home, didn’t want to see her son and considered abandoning her youngest to a Home. Her doctors even recommended it. However, she quickly came around and became a champion for her youngest son. I knew I was ugly. […]

I Wonder About Wonder

January 3, 2018 by Melina Leave a Comment

My book club picked Wonder for this month of January and I decided to be a good book club member (for once) and actually read the book I’m supposed to, rather than the books that I want to read. I read the entire thing in almost one sitting which means that I was avoiding something else in my life (grading and laundry, I stopped to play with some Shopkins and a certain blond 5 year old who wanted me to hang with her). I Wonder […]

Wonder-filled

April 9, 2017 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

“Kinder than is necessary. Because it’s not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.” Wonder is a wonderful story about a boy, August, who was born with severe facial deformities. Numerous surgeries coupled with his parents reservations kept him from being a typical school environment until this year. This year August will attend 5th grade at Beecher Prep. The school principal enlists a few of August’s classmates a few weeks before term starts to show him around. One of those boys, Jack, becomes […]

The wonder of Wonder

January 21, 2014 by bunnybean 19 Comments

I got this book for Christmas (my mom read it last year and recommended it to me). I really liked it. Its about a boy named August (his family calls him Auggie) who has facial abnormalities. We don

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