书名：Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories 奥吉与我：三个奇迹故事 

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数680L

读者对象：8 - 12岁

作者：R. J. Palacio

出版社名称：Knopf

出版时间：2015

语种： 英文

ISBN：9781101935774

商品尺寸：13.8 x 2.2 x 20.8 cm

包装：平装

页数：320

Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories《奥吉与我：三个奇迹故事》是美国作家R. J.帕拉秋创作的短篇小说集，是纽约时报畅销书Wonder《奇迹男孩》的副本，启发读者如何对待同学、朋友和家人。故事并不是《奇迹男孩》的续集，而是从三个孩子的视角——Julian, Christopher和Charlotte——讲述三个不同的故事。他们的故事都与那个天生脸部有残缺的男孩AuggieOver 6 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder—the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement—and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories is a collection of short tales spun off from R.J. Palacio’s bestselling Wonder. Auggie, a student with severe facial deformities who anchored Wonder, appears briefly but is not the focus of this companion book. Each story is told from a different perspective: a bully, an old friend, and a new classmate. Characters who seem at times unkind are treated with empathy: Their cruelty isn’t excused, but the stories help explain some of the reasons people behave in ways they know are unkind. This collection of three stories is a thought-provoking read that may well encourage readers to see classmates, friends, and family in a new light. More of a spin-off than a sequel to the much-acclaimed Wonder, it digs deep into themes of kindness, friendship, accountability, and integrity with a deft understanding of middle school social drama. Auggie & Me follows three students in vastly different circumstances learning important lessons about relationships: Julian confronts his own cruelty and his enabler parents, Christopher acknowledges his selfishness and the work needed to stay close to important friends and family, and Charlotte expands her circle to embrace new friends.

Auggie & Me gives readers a special look at Auggie’s world through three new points of view. Previously only available in ebook, now they’ll be published all together—complete with an introduction from the author on how she came to write them—in a gorgeous hardcover package!  These stories are an extra peek at Auggie before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie’s oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie’s new friend at school. Together, these three stories are a treasure for readers who don’t want to leave Auggie behind when they finish Wonder.  Author R.J. Palacio has a gift for understanding the pressures of middle school. As in Wonder, some characters and situation seem a little too shiny and happy to be true. But they’re presented with such sincerity and faith in the basic goodness of people, it’s hard to take issue with it. 

AUGGIE & ME opens with Julian, who sheds light on why he targeted Auggie and how it affected his relationship with students and adults and Beecher Prep. After leaving school, he spends the summer in Paris with his grandmother, who shares a story that has a profound effect on Julian. The second story follows an extraordinary day in the life of Christopher, who is Auggie’s oldest friend but has grown distant from him. And the final story centers on Charlotte, one of Auggie’s assigned “welcome buddies” and her doubts and successes as she tries to find friendship amid the shifting terrain of middle school relationships. 

R. J.帕拉秋是知名出版社的艺术总监和书封设计师，目前与先生和孩子住在纽约，曾为无数小说设计封面，但写作一直是她的心愿。她一直在等待完美的时间动笔，不过，在她为其他人设计了二十几年的书封之后，她发现动笔写书，永远没有所谓的完美时机，于是她决定放手一搏。《奇迹男孩》是她的首部本小说，一出版就大获成功。 R. J. PALACIO lives in NYC with her husband, two sons, and two dogs. For more than twenty years, she was an art director and graphic designer, designing book jackets for other people while waiting for the perfect time in her life to start writing her own novel. But one day several years ago, a chance encounter with an extraordinary child in front of an ice cream store made R. J. realize that the perfect time to write that novel had finally come. Wonder is her first novel. She did not design the cover, but she sure does love it.