Wonder

started to read. “ ‘Greatness,’ wrote Beecher, ‘lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.... He is the great ...

Floating People started applauding before Mr. Tushman’s words actually registered in my brain. I heard Maya, who was next to me, ...

standing up. Not just the front rows, but the whole audience suddenly got up on their feet, whooping, hollering, clapping like c ...

Pictures Afterward there was a reception for the fifth and sixth graders under a huge white tent in the back of the school. All ...

to brag here, but it kind of felt like everyone wanted to get close to me. ...

The Walk Home We walked to our house for cake and ice cream after the reception. Jack and his parents and his little brother, Ja ...

Auggie. You are a wonder.” ...

APPENDIX MR. BROWNE’S PRECEPTS SEPTEMBER When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind. —Dr. Wayne W. Dye ...

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. —Sappho MAY Do all the good you can, By all the means you can ...

HENRY JOPLIN’S PRECEPT Don’t be friends with jerks. —Henry Joplin MAYA MARKOWITZ’S PRECEPT All you need is love. —The Beatles AM ...

Some Vital Resources Here are a few of the organizations with which I’ve been in touch that are doing wonders for children with ...

edenmemorialpetcare.com/children-pet-loss-article.htm ...

PERMISSIONS Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Gay and Lo ...

TRO-Essex Music International, Inc.: Excerpt from “Space Oddity,” words and music by David Bowie, copyright © 1969, copyright re ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful beyond measure to my amazing agent, Alyssa Eisner Henkin, for loving this manuscript even in its e ...

write, and for always choosing “kind.” You are my wonders. And most of all, thank you to my incredible husband, Russell, for you ...

R. J. Palacio lives in New York City with her husband, two sons, and two dogs. For more than twenty years, she was an editorial ...

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