Wonder

-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-years-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing 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 aren-t stared at wherever they go.

Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life, to protect him from the cruelty of the outside world. 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?

Narrated by Auggie and the people are around him whose lives he touches forever, Wonder is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.