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-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.