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Auggie & me : three Wonder stories / R.J. Palacio.

Title:

Auggie & me :

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Auggie and me

Author:

Palacio, R. J.

Format:

Books

Physical Description:

xvi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

ISBN:

9781101934852

9781101934869

Production / Publication Information:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Contents:

The Julian chapter -- Pluto -- Shingaling

Summary:

"These stories are an extra peek at Auggie, a boy born with extreme facial abnormalities, before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie s oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie s new friend at school"--

Language:

English

Subject Term:

Abnormalities, Human -- Fiction.

Friendship -- Fiction.

Middle schools -- Fiction.

Schools -- Fiction.

JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education.

Abnormalities, Human -- Juvenile fiction.

Self-acceptance -- Juvenile fiction.

Middle schools -- Juvenile fiction.

Schools -- Juvenile fiction.

Electronic Access:

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Summary

Over 15 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face.

And don't miss R.J. Palacio's highly anticipated new novel, Pony , available now!

Auggie & Me gives readers a special look at Auggie's world through three new points of view. These stories are an extra peek at Auggie before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie's oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie's new friend at school. Together, these three stories are a treasure for readers who don't want to leave Auggie behind when they finish Wonder .

Reviews (4)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Few first novels beget a franchise, but Palacio's Wonder (2012), about a boy with a severe facial deformity, is a phenomenon. A bestseller since publication, it has also spawned a standalone companion book, 365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne's Book of Precepts (2014). But despite requests from readers for a sequel, Palacio writes in her introduction to this collection of three previously released e-singles, "I can guarantee that... the de facto sequel will never be written." Instead she offers the back stories of three kids in Auggie Pullman's orbit, beginning with the "much-loathed" Julian, who suffers from nightmares and anxiety. Julian's story is the most didactic, but it will have classroom use as an "anatomy of a bully" lesson, suggesting that readers look behind a mean-spirited act to understand what drives it. Readers also spend time with Christopher, Auggie's best friend until his family moved to Connecticut, and Charlotte, a classmate chosen to help Auggie transition from homeschooling to fifth grade. Readers who wanted more about Auggie will flock to this. Ages 8-12. Agent: Alyssa Eisner Henkin, Trident Media. (Aug.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Horn Book Review

Three novellas previously published as ebooks are collected in this companion to Wonder, giving readers insight into lives running parallel to Auggie's. Emphasizing the theme of kindness, each story explores the evolution of friendships and selfhood in a year fraught with change. Earnestly depicted emotions gently drive the plot, as Palacio treats each narrator's fears and joys with a respect her audience will appreciate. (c) Copyright 2016. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Review

In the companion novel to Wonder, (2012) three students at Beecher Prep middle school tell stories that connect with Auggie Pullman's dramatic arrival into their worlds. "Sometimes friendships are hard," and friendship with Auggie Pullman is a special challenge. He is different. He looks different, and that's not easy in middle school. He has a "severe craniofacial difference," facial features that, even after many surgeries over the years, look like "the drippings on the side of a candle." Now, Palacio zeros in on three characters: Julian, the bully; Auggie's oldest friend, Christopher; and Charlotte, the girl who is nice to Auggie but never especially friendly. Auggie is the common thread in their stories, but he's behind the scenes here, peripheral to their first-person narratives. Each character relates a story that includes an epiphany about friendship, family, and life. Auggie is the catalyst for transformations in their lives, but readers will see sides of characters Auggie never would have known. Originally published as short e-books, the stories are explorations of kindness, each character demonstrating how it takes bravery to be kind, how, in the tricky business of navigating new situations, "it's always better to err on the side of kindness." Not only a companion to Wonder, but a wonder in itself. (Fiction. 8-14) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Booklist Review

As Palacio explains in the introduction to this collection of three previously published e-book stories, calls for a sequel to Wonder (2012) are both frequent and ineffective it's not going to happen. Instead, she offers these deeper looks at three minor characters. In the abstract, it makes sense; the point of Wonder, after all, was about looking behind surfaces to find the nuance. The Julian Chapter is the strongest story and, most readers will agree, the most necessary, as Julian was the closest thing to a villain to our facially deformed fifth-grade hero, Auggie. Here, his bullydom is revealed to be a cog in a much larger familial machine out of his control. Pluto looks at Auggie's old friend, Chris, showing how his failures as a friend to Auggie inspire him to do better. Shingaling, meanwhile, follows classmate Charlotte as she navigates friend-gaining and friend-losing with a bevy of handmade Venn diagrams. Auggie feels shoehorned into the latter stories, making them feel a bit typical. Even so, Palacio's strength remains her straightforwardness, especially when it comes to children's instinctive fear of Auggie. Mostly for superfans, of which there are plenty. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Wonder was a number-one best-seller and critical darling, and the media machine for this featuring dedicated sites, hashtags, outreach, and classroom guides is well under way.--Kraus, Daniel Copyright 2015 Booklist

Excerpts

Ordinary Okay, okay, okay. I know, I know, I know. I haven't been nice to August Pullman! Big deal. It's not the end of the world, people! Let's stop with the drama, okay? There's a whole big world out there, and not everyone is nice to everyone else. That's just the way it is. So, can you please get over it? I think it's time to move on and get on with your life, don't you? Jeez! I don't get it. I really don't. One minute, I'm like, the most popular kid in the fifth grade. And the next minute, I'm like, I don't know. Whatever. This bites. This whole year bites! I wish Auggie Pullman had never come to Beecher Prep in the first place! I wish he had kept his creepy little face hidden away like in The Phantom of the Opera or something. Put a mask on, Auggie! Get your face out of my face, please. Everything would be a lot easier if you would just disappear. At least for me. I'm not saying it's a picnic for him, either, by the way. I know it can't be easy for him to look in the mirror every day, or walk down the street. But that's not my problem. My problem is that everything's different since he's been coming to my school. The kids are different. I'm different. And it sucks big-time. I wish everything was the way it used to be in the fourth grade. We had so, so, so much fun back then. We would play tackle-tag in the yard, and not to brag, but everyone always wanted a piece of me, you know? I'm just sayin'. Everyone always wanted to be my partner when we'd do social studies projects. And everyone always laughed when I said something funny. At lunchtime, I'd always sit with my peeps, and we were like, it. We were totally it. Henry. Miles. Amos. Jack. We were it! It was so cool. We had all these secret jokes. Little hand signals for stuff. I don't know why that had to change. I don't know why everyone got so stupid about stuff. Actually, I do know why: it was because of Auggie Pullman. The moment he showed up, that's when things stopped being the way they used to be. Everything was totally ordinary. And now things are messed up. And it's because of him. And Mr. Tushman. In fact, it's kind of totally Mr. Tushman's fault. Excerpted from Auggie and Me: Three Wonder Stories by R. J. Palacio All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.