Wonder: Special Hardback Edition with Sprayed Edges

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor the first time ever read the award-winning multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon that is WONDER in this brand new-special hardback edition with beautiful sprayed edges.Millions of people have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face--who shows us that kindness brings us together no matter how far apart we are. Now a major motion picture.'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.R.J. Palacio has called her debut novel a meditation on kindness --indeed every reader will come away with a greater appreciation for the simple courage of friendship. Auggie is a hero to root for a diamond in the rough who proves that you can't blend in when you were born to stand out.