Wonder
About this book
Wonder is a children's novel written by R. J. Palacio,[2] published on 14 February 2012.
R. J. Palacio wrote Wonder after an incident where her son noticed a girl with a severe facial difference and started to cry. Fearing he would react badly, Palacio attempted to remove her son from the situation so as not to upset the girl and her family but ended up worsening the situation. Natalie Merchant's song of the same name made her realize that the incident could illustrate a valuable lesson. Palacio was inspired by Merchant's lyrics and she began writing. She named the book directly after the song and used the song's chorus as the prologue of the first chapter.
Subjects
- aprobación de sí mismo
- birth defects
- body image
- brothers and sisters
- children's fiction
- children with disabilities
- craniofacial abnormalities
- daily living
- deformidades
- disabled children
- diseases illnesses & injuries
- diseases, illnesses & injuries
- divorce
- divorcio
- escuelas
- face abnormalities
- family relations
- ficción juvenil
- fiction
- fiction - health & daily living - diseases illnesses & injuries
- fiction - school & education
- fiction - social themes - special needs
- health
- health & daily living
- hermanos y hermanas
- human abnormalities
- juvenile fiction
- mainstreaming
- mainstreaming (education)
- mark twain award
- middle schools
- multiple abnormalities
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:chapter_books=2012-02-25
- padres e hijos
- parent and child
- people with disabilities, fiction
- personal beauty
- private schools
- psychology
- school & education
- schools
- schools, fiction
- self-acceptance
- self-acceptance, fiction
- social themes
- spanish language materials
- special needs
- students
- young adult fiction