Wonder is a book about a ten year old boy born with several genetic mutations that left him with a deformed face. People react to him with horror whenever he is out in public. Until 5th grade he is somewhat protected by his parents who homeschool him. They live in NYC and the parents decide he should go to school so they enroll him in a fancy private school (he is very smart and has no special needs).
Then he has to deal with people who are not kind.
The story is told from many points of view but I can only relate to the mother (who is never a narrator). She watches people treat her son poorly and does her best to protect him but since that is impossible, she fails. He endures isolation and ridicule, and all she can do is hug him and cry.
There is a happy ending and a good moral lesson but I didn't really care about all that because it is really hard to have a child who is different in an unkind world.
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