Wonder

'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 in this new tenth anniversary edition.

'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.

Discover more from the World of Wonder:

White Bird, a graphic novel *Soon to be a motion picture!*
Auggie & Me
365 Days of Wonder
We're All Wonders

And read more from R. J. Palacio with Pony, an unforgettable new story!

Review: 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 *

Prizes: Winner of Wirral Grammar School Book Awards 2013. Commended for Berkshire Book Award 2013 (UK). Short-listed for Wandsworth Schools Fabulous Book Award 2014 (UK) and Golden Dragon Hong Kong Award 2014 (UK) and Hampshire Book Award 2015 (UK). Long-listed for UKLA Book Award 2012 (UK) and Carnegie Medal 2013 (UK).