- James M. Barrie
August Pullman has never been to a real school. He's done plenty of other things: Like ride a bike and have birthday parties and grow a Jedi Padawan braid. But instead of spending his time in school with the rest of the kids his age, Auggie has been in hospitals.
Auggie has born with a rare genetic twist of fate that has left him with a facial deformity. Even after surgery after surgery after surgery, other kids in the playground see his and run away screaming. But this year, Auggie is going to a regular school for one of the most memorable fifth grades in kid lit.
But this isn't an issue book. It is a book about friendship and growing up and bullying and choosing what you want from life that is narrated by a boy happens to look different from everyone else. At its heart, it is funny, sincere story for everyone who has felt out of place.
I would be very surprised if Wonder doesn't appear on the ALA Youth Media Awards on January 28th (READ: Raising an eyebrow at the computer shouting "Really? REALLY? Evaluate your life-choices, Newbery Selection Committee!").
Choose kind, Bookslingers. Choose kind.
