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Jan 24, 2016
Astrid Lim
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children,
inspirational,
special-needs,
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family,
middle-grade,
book-club,
disability
I love this book! It's a wonderful story of August, a child who has "different" face- and try to adjust to his new life at regular school, after all those years of being homeschooled. The story is very inspiring, packed with emotional scenes, realistic characters and the most important thing: flowing dialogues. Seriously, I've read many middle grader books lately that have too childish or too mature conversations inside. But RJ Palacio could immerse easily into the middle grader lives. Love love
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This was like an afterschool special about craniofacial abnormalities. It's a shame, because the story had an interesting topic and characters. But every single thing got tied up with a pretty little bow: dead dog, so sad... new puppy so cute! snobby friend so sad... besties again at the end! mean boy so sad... he hates himself at the end! kid feels like an outcast and totally alienated... gets standing O at the end! I mean really. Was this a children's chapter book that I mistook for a grownup
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Oct 21, 2014
Sarah
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recommend-to-friends,
young-adult
I really liked this book even though I found the ending implausible. It's nice to believe that kindness would win in the end, but middle school rarely works that way.
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Nov 13, 2014
Tiffany
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Jan 07, 2018
Cassie
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Mar 19, 2018
Jillian
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May 06, 2019
Megan
marked it as to-read