书名：Wonder 奇迹男孩
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数790
作者：R. J. Palacio
出版社名称：Knopf
出版时间：2014
语种： 英文
ISBN：9780553509977
商品尺寸：13.8 x 1.5 x 20.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：316（以实物为准）

Wonder《奇迹男孩》是美国作家R. J.帕拉西奥创作的一部关于“勇敢”的少年小说，描绘了一个充满泪水、爱与希望的生命旅程，述说一个平凡的男孩如何接纳自己、勇敢长大的不凡故事。本书为英文版，适合有一定英文基础的青少年或成人阅读。
推荐理由：
1. 故事感人励志，李家同、李崇建、沈芯菱、林伟信等众多教育名师推荐；
2. 书中将青少年的言语、行为以及心情转折都描绘的丝丝入扣，内容贴切；
3. 英文原版，词汇简单易懂，中学水平即可读懂，很适合做课外英语读物。
The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that has captivated over 1 million readers and inspired a movement to choose kind.
“Won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.
August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. WONDER, now a #1 New York Times bestseller and included on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list, begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.
“Wonder is the best kids’ book of the year,” said Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate.com and author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. In a world where bullying among young people is an epidemic, this is a refreshing new narrative full of heart and hope. R.J. Palacio has called her debut novel“a meditation on kindness” —indeed, every reader will come away with a greater appreciation for the simple courage of friendship. Auggie is a hero to root for, a diamond in the rough who proves that you can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.

命运对他开了一个残酷的玩笑，但爱，让生命化为不可思议的奇迹！
十万读者鼓掌泪推！一个天生缺陷的男孩克服万难、勇敢长大的感人故事。
“我不会把我的长相描述给你听的。无论你脑中有什么想象，恐怕都比那要糟得多。”——奥吉，十岁
成长，对他来说，是一条异常艰辛的道路，每跨一步，都需要比别人还多的勇气……
怪物、外星人、恶心鬼、蜥蜴脸、突变人……别人总是在他背后交头接耳、窃窃私语。
他是奥吉，一个遗传罕见基因，天生脸部有残缺的男孩。一出生，医生就断定他活不过三个月，但奥吉却凭着旺盛的生命力活了下来，经过大大小小的面部整容手术，他逐渐朝“正常人”的路走去，但五官仍然非常扭曲，像有人用大钳子把他的脸从中间压扁。小时候，他不论走到哪都戴着一顶航天员头盔，因为唯有躲在头盔之下，才不会引来别人异样的眼光。
十岁这一年，奥吉踏进学校，进入了丑的、胖的、和别人稍有不同就会被霸凌的残酷青春期。就在他即将融入新学校之际，一场万圣节的恶作剧把奥吉的自信打到谷地。恶作剧背后的真相究竟是什么？因奥吉所掀起的战争，又有什么惊人的内幕？在充满潜规则的中学校园，一不小心，就会从“受欢迎”沦落为“被排挤”的边缘人……到底谁是敌、谁是友？敌友的分界，是否真的如此壁垒分明？奥吉要如何靠着他的智慧和幽默感，化解危机？每个人的不同抉择，又将如何扭转自己和他人的命运？
“My name is August. I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.” Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things— eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary— inside. But ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren’t stared at wherever they go. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he’s being sent to a real school— and he’s dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted—but can he convince his new classmates that he’s just like them, underneath it all?Wonder is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.

R. J.帕拉西奥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.

Ordinary
I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid. I mean, sure, I do ordinary things. I eat ice cream. I ride my bike. I play ball. I have an XBox. Stuff like that makes me ordinary. I guess. And I feel ordinary. Inside. But I know ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. I know ordinary kids don’t get stared at wherever they go.
If I found a magic lamp and I could have one wish, I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all. I would wish that I could walk down the street without people seeing me and then doing that look-away thing. Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.
But I’m kind of used to how I look by now. I know how to pretend I don’t see the faces people make. We’ve all gotten pretty good at that sort of thing: me, Mom and Dad, Via. Actually, I take that back: Via’s not so good at it. She can get really annoyed when people do something rude. Like, for instance, one time in the playground some older kids made some noises. I don’t even know what the noises were exactly because I didn’t hear them myself, but Via heard and she just started yelling at the kids. That’s the way she is. I’m not that way.

Via doesn’t see me as ordinary. She says she does, but if I were ordinary, she wouldn’t feel like she needs to protect me as much. And Mom and Dad don’t see me as ordinary, either. They see me as extraordinary. I think the only person in the world who realizes how ordinary I am is me.
My name is August, by the way. I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.