Wonder (UK)

Wonder: R. J. Palacio Paperback – 3 Jan. 2014 by R J Palacio (Author, Illustrator), UK.

'Has the power to move hearts and change minds' Guardian

'Tremendously uplifting and a novel of all-too-rare power' Sunday Express

'An amazing book . . . I absolutely loved it. I cried my eyes out' Tom Fletcher

Read the award-winning, multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon that is 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?

A funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut - and a true global phenomenon - to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.

Product details

• For ages 9+
• Format Paperback | 416 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 20mm | 256g
• Publication date 23 Jan 2013
• Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
• Imprint Corgi Childrens
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note B+W chapter heads
• ISBN13 9780552565974