Wonder
R.J. Palacio, 2012
A boy with a facial difference starts school for the first time, and a whole community has to learn how to look at him.
R.J. Palacio
Palacio has said the idea began with a chance sighting of a girl with a facial difference outside an ice cream shop, and with Natalie Merchant’s song 'Wonder'.
Feels like tenderness, identity and family.
The wish is not to be beautiful, only to be unnoticed.
If I found a magic lamp and I could have one wish, I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all. I would wish that I could walk down the street without people seeing me and then doing that look-away thing. Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way. Books by R.J. Palacio
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