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We listened to this one in the car on our Spring Break trip to Virginia. It's still a very good, heart wrenching book that I'll be reading and recommending for years to come.
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6/14--Re-reading again in preparation to read Julian's chapter. Third time is STILL a charm.
5/13 Just as good the second time around!
This amazing MG story made me laugh and cry. It is the story of Auggie, a fifth grader new to school. He was previously homeschooled due to multiple surgeries to try and correct a severe craniofacial abnormality. However, the surgeries haven't done much to fix Auggie's face and he is still a frightening sight to many. The author did a wonderful job of showing not o ...more
5/13 Just as good the second time around!
This amazing MG story made me laugh and cry. It is the story of Auggie, a fifth grader new to school. He was previously homeschooled due to multiple surgeries to try and correct a severe craniofacial abnormality. However, the surgeries haven't done much to fix Auggie's face and he is still a frightening sight to many. The author did a wonderful job of showing not o ...more
I enjoyed this book- easy to read; I finished it in a day. I like the premise of the book and I want lots of kids to read it, but I don't know that they will really take it to heart. Kindness counts and it really matters, but in order for kids to get that, they have to really live it, just like August, Jack and the other kids did in the woods. That's what makes the tides turn. I know our big push at school this year has been kindness. I have said it over and over the past week - practice kindnes
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Great story! Told from various points of view, the story is about a boy named Auggie who will be attending school for the first time having been home schooled until now. He will begin 5th grade at a private school. Auggie has severe facial deformities that make it difficult for other students to accept him. Auggie keeps his spirits up as he adjusts to school and his classmates adjust to him. Auggie is able to laugh at himself where others run away. He accepts his face and has learned to live the
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3.5 or 4 stars. Funny and real and easy to love. Actually one of the greatest things about this book is the love and warmth of family and friends. It's never goopy (far too many butt jokes for goopiness), but it provides this amazing net to catch Auggie when life makes him fall. The social dynamics of school are painfully realistic, so that the redemptive ending feels earned. I did lose track of the different voices a little bit but they feel necessary to telling this story: Auggie has a perspec
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I've been putting this one off. I knew what it was about and I had preconceived notions. Wrong, wrong, wrong. This could have been such a heavy, depressing book. But, Auggie is indeed the most extraordinary "ordinary" boy. He deals with life's challenges with an amazing degree of grace and patience. I think this would make an excellent read-aloud. The chapters are very short, and it's told in alternating perspectives. There's a lesson here for all of us about being kinder than necessary. It's pr
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Amazing and sad. I doubt many kids will read this but I gotta get them to.
Reading a second time for book club.
Should be 5/6 required reading.
More amazing the second time.
Choose kind is one of the themes of this book. Loved it and I hope everyone reads it.
Mar 26, 2012
Paul
marked it as to-read
Apr 20, 2012
Jennifer
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