Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
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4.0 • 34 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The multi-million-copy bestseller WONDER showed how choosing kindness and empathy can change the lives of those around you.
Now, in AUGGIE & ME, you can discover a new side to the WONDER story in three new chapters from three different characters:
Julian: Auggie's classroom bully
Christopher: Auggie's oldest friend
Charlotte: Auggie's classmate
These three stories are heartbreaking, surprising, funny and hopeful. Just like WONDER, AUGGIE & ME will make you laugh, cry and try to choose kind.
Praise for WONDER:
"Remarkable . . . It has the power to move hearts and change minds" (Guardian)
"Incredibly charming, brutal and brilliant" (Observer)
"It wreaks emotional havoc . . . To finish it with a firm resolve to be a better person - well, you can't ask much more of any book than that" (Independent)
"When the kids have finished with this, the adults will want to read it. Everybody should" (Financial Times)
"Awesome . . . So authentic you'll swear a kid wrote the book. And yes, that's a good thing" (Glamour)
Discover more from the World of Wonder:
Wonder
White Bird, a graphic novel *Soon to be a motion picture!*
365 Days of Wonder
We're All Wonders
And read more from R. J. Palacio with Pony, an unforgettable new story!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Few first novels beget a franchise, but Palacio's Wonder (2012), about a boy with a severe facial deformity, is a phenomenon. A bestseller since publication, it has also spawned a standalone companion book, 365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne's Book of Precepts (2014). But despite requests from readers for a sequel, Palacio writes in her introduction to this collection of three previously released e-singles, "I can guarantee that... the de facto sequel will never be written." Instead she offers the back stories of three kids in Auggie Pullman's orbit, beginning with the "much-loathed" Julian, who suffers from nightmares and anxiety. Julian's story is the most didactic, but it will have classroom use as an "anatomy of a bully" lesson, suggesting that readers look behind a mean-spirited act to understand what drives it. Readers also spend time with Christopher, Auggie's best friend until his family moved to Connecticut, and Charlotte, a classmate chosen to help Auggie transition from homeschooling to fifth grade. Readers who wanted more about Auggie will flock to this. Ages 8 12.
Customer Reviews
Love it
Tremendous and uplifting book
Amazing again
I read this after reading Wonder and 365 days of Wonder.
It’s another amazing piece of work by the writer, written from a different characters perspective. Very cleverly written as it all ties it into the main story.
Heartwarming and inspiring. This is one talented writer who knows how to evoke real emotion.
Wondur
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