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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 \u0026amp; Me 365 Days of Wonder  We're All Wonders   And read more from R. J. Palacio with Pony, an unforgettable new story!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Children's UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47785913778397,"sku":"9780552565974","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/1601\/8397\/files\/9780552565974.jpg?v=1776160808"},{"product_id":"wonder-arabic","title":"Wonder - Arabic (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003ethe Arabic edition of the best-selling novel \"Wonder\". The story follows August (Auggie) Pullman, a 10-year-old boy born with a severe facial deformity that previously prevented him from attending a mainstream school. 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Palacio is a fantastic writer' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Perfection . . . A beautiful, funny, heart-twisting wonder of a book . . . A brilliant story of love and courage' Wall Street Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Silas Bird wakes in the dead of night, he watches powerlessly as three strangers take his father away. Silas is left shaken, scared and alone, except for the presence of his companion, Mittenwool . . . who happens to be a ghost. But then a mysterious pony shows up at his door, and Silas knows what he has to do. 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The unforgettable and life-affirming story of August Pullman - a boy who's desperate to blend in, but is destined to stand out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI know I’m not an ordinary kid. I mean, sure, I do ordinary things. I eat ice-cream. I ride my bike. I play ball. I have an Xbox. Stuff like that makes me ordinary. I guess. And I feel ordinary. Inside. But I know ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. I know ordinary kids don’t get stared at wherever they go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor Raquel Jaramillo, who wrote Wonder under the pen name R.J. Palacio, is a one-time book cover designer and a mother of two boys. It was the act of buying ice cream with one of those boys that lead to her writing the story of Auggie Pullman, when she became anxious about her son’s possible reaction to the visible facial differences of a little girl in the queue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer book is an emotional, important tale of a 10-year-old boy with ‘mandibulofacial dysotosis’ or ‘Treacher-Collins syndrome’ – or in plain English ‘rare facial birth disfigurement’. Auggie has had 27 operations, yet his first foray into school life, having been home educated to this point, isn’t so much about what he looks like (“Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse”) and more about how people react to him. 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