Hi everyone!
I recently finished this book for the 30 Books Reading Challenge:
- Genre: YA, realistic fiction
- Publisher: Corgi Childrens
- Pages: 315
- My rating: 10 out of 10!!!
- Favorite quotes:
I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.
Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.
Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.
- Plot: You can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.My name is August. I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.August Pullman wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things. He eats ice cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary – inside.
But Auggie is far from ordinary. Ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids don’t get stared at wherever they go.
Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the outside world. 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?
Narrated by Auggie and the people around him whose lives he touches forever, Wonder is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.
- Review: I love this book and I don’t know what to say… It is funny, inspirational, educational and well, awesome! It’s basically about Auggie, a boy, that has to face a lot of new experiences like school . Anyway the book has more points of view like the sister’s one (thing that I liked a lot because it explain things, personalities and doesn’t make the book a story only about him). It’s really well written and has a lot of quotes and things like that about a lot of songs and movies (like Star Wars)!
- I recommend it to… anyone maybe from 11 years old and up because you have to understand the message that the book wants to give everyone.
That’s it if you have any questions or you want to say something comments are highly appreciated 🙂 View all my reviews on goodreads.
Hope you will read it and enjoy it as I did,
Zoe @ Stories on Stage 30/01/2016
I completely agree! This was such a heartwarming and insightful book and the message was great. Glad you enjoyed it as much as I did!
Arvenig 31/01/2016
Thanks! We’re on the same line ;)!
Cait @ Paper Fury 28/01/2016
I agree!! The message is SO GOOD and the book is so cute and I loved this one a lot. ;D I think there should be more books like this in the world, tbh (or maybe there are and I just haven’t found them?! :P)
Thanks for stopping by @ Paper Fury!
Arvenig 29/01/2016
Well there’s the series but I think it had all the success thanks to facts that’s sort of new the message and also how the author writes about that. Thanks for stopping! 🙂