Last week, G.S. Lakie Middle School finished Wonder by R.J Palicio. The book was about a ten year old boy, named August Pullman, (Auggie for short) who is ‘handicapped.’ He had never been to school and started at Middle School for the very first time in his life. On the first day of school nobody liked him. Everybody just stared. It was a terrible experience for Auggie, and he never wanted to go to school again, but his mom was his own inspiration. Mom never pushed him to do anything but she did persuade him a lot to do things.
Auggie liked to name people after Star Wars characters. (By the way, he loves star wars.)
In the story, a person called Jack, was his ‘so called friend.’ He pretended to like him because Mr. Tushman (Dean of Auggie’s school) had asked him to be his friend and ‘hang out’ with Auggie. At one point in the story, at Halloween, Auggie was supposed to go as a character from Star Wars, and told everybody he was going as this character. The next morning he didn’t want to wear his original costume, so he went as another character from Star Wars. When Auggie went to school that day, he heard Jack and a few other friends talking about him. They were saying things like ‘If I had a face like that, I would never show my face!’ How horrible is that?!