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The Newest Kid: Wonder By R. J. Palacio

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The Newest Kid Wonder by R.J Palacio, is about a boy with a birth defect that made his face look melted. The Boy’s name is Auggie, Auggie has never attended a single day of regular school, he was homeschooled and protected from the outside world by his parents, they feared the name calling and the looks that he would receive with his dysfunction. On a quiet ride back home, Auggie's parents was slapped by reality, they won't be able to protect him for the rest of his life, they introduce the idea of public school to him and decided to go ahead and have Auggie tested, furthermore, auggie was accepted with flying colors, he was doubtful about the idea for school at first but as he went along the year he has many different changes of perspective. This book shows that life can be full of twist and turns. Auggie for the first time in his life is attending a public school with kids that have never seen him and his face disorder, Auggie was not excited for the surprising looks he would receive. Life for Auggie has never been easy for him, he has had to keep going and fighting for himself because he knew that one day he will succeed, even though there are moments where it was perfectly fine to give up. At first Auggie didn't recognize any of the testing and Interviews to test his smarts for entry into beecher …show more content…

Auggie's debated “We can't protect him for the rest of his life, well how do you expect me to send him to school being a goat to slaughter at the school, you know that kids are hateful and will make him the laughing stock of the school”(10) Auggie's parents go back and forth between letting him go to school after hearing what happened on the first, they just want the best for him and nothing else but they don't know that the best is, they are

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