Genre: Realistic Fiction
Awards/Recognition: Bluebonnet Award, #1 New York Times Bestseller, One of Time Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time, A Parents Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year, An NPR Outstanding Backseat Book Club Pick,, An Entertainment Weekly 10 Great Kid's Books Selection, An E.B. White Read Aloud Award Winner, A USA Today Top 100 Best Seller, An ALA-ALSC Notable Book, A Washington Post Best Kid's Book, An IRA-CBC Teachers' Choice
Grades: 3-6
August Pullman also known as Auggie, is a ten year old boy living in Manhattan with a rare facial deformity. Because of this medical condition, he had to go through many surgeries causing him to be home schooled. Right after 4th grade, his mother decided to see how Auggie would do in a regular school for 5th grade and placed him in Beecher Prep, a middle school. At first, many students treated him differently because of the way looked. His classmates would act like he had the plague and overall bully him in school. He had his friends, Summer and Jack to help him through this new transition. On Halloween, he dressed up as a character Jack did not expect him to be dressed as and talked really bad about him to one of his bullies, Julian, in front of Auggie. It was at this moment that Auggie wanted to quit school and stay home. Fortunately, his sister Via convinced him to stay which lead to him continuing his friendship with Jack. Everyone started to bully Jack as well because he became Auggie's best friend. Everything turned around when they went to the schools retreat. Some guys from another school bullied Auggie and Jack because of the way he looked, but luckily their classmates, also Julian's friends, defended them. Julian became less popular when they got back to school and Auggie became more accepted and liked by his classmates.
I would use this book in my class to teach the importance of acceptance of one another. It a beautiful book with a great moral lesson. Students in the upper grade such as third to fourth graders would benefit from this book since the characters are their around their age. I would use this book in class a book club book so that students get the opportunity to read and understand different peoples perspective over the same topic.
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