self-acceptance

Three previously-published novellas that shed further light on the world of Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, set before he entered Beecher Prep and during his first year there and told from other characters' points of view. "The Julian Chapter" reveals why the bully dislikes Auggie so much. "Pluto" is about the lifelong friendship between Auggie and Christopher. And, finally, "Shingaling" offers a view of how the girls at Beecher Prep see Auggie when he first comes on the scene.

"Una historia deliciosa, sencilla y amable que ilustra la importancia de la diversidad y la importancia de aceptar a los dem??s tal como son. En un mundo en el que elbullyingentre los j??venes se est?? convirtiendo en una verdadera epidemia, los libros de la serie "Wonder" ofrecen una nueva visi??n refrescante, necesaria y esperanzadora." -- various websites.

"Shares a story of loving who you are, respecting others and being kind to one another"--OCLC.

"Teased for having two fathers, a boy views his friend's traditional family as similar to his own and realizes he can counter the ridicule by taking pride in his fathers and the love that makes them a family"--OCLC.

"Shares a story of loving who you are, respecting others and being kind to one another"--OCLC.

"After watching a performance of a wild cat climbing trees, Ginger the fox decides to learn to climb trees herself, but when she is criticized for not behaving like a fox, she leaves her blended family behind in search of other foxes"--OCLC.

Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him a weird loser, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.

Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunts and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

Zubi, a happy Bangladeshi girl, is excited about her first day of school, but at breakfast she is puzzled by her mother and older sister worrying about being "too big," and even at school she hears other people criticizing each other's bodies, and she starts to worry that maybe something is wrong with how she looks--until her declaration at dinner that she is on a diet makes her family realize what they have been doing wrong.

"Panda Cat begins each day by brushing his teeth with garlic toothpaste, combing rotten eggs through his hair, and enjoying a breakfast of spoiled milk and a rotten apple. In Smellville, it's cool to be stinky. But when he tries to invent the stinkiest smell ever for the science fair, it backfires -- because it smells good. And Panda Cat . . . likes it? How will he tell his friends? Or his hero, Albert Einstink -- the scientist behind the theory of stinkativity?"--Provided by publisher.