Clara Wintermute is fascinated by the stringed puppet show she sees performed on a street corner. She pleads with her father to hire the small show to be the entertainment for her birthday party. Despite his concerns about the dirty, lower-class, expert puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, he consents. Clara is excited to meet the two orphaned […]
Review | Wonder by R.J. Palacio
2013-01-24 · by ·
Auggie has always been home-schooled, but his mom thinks it’s time for him to go to a ‘real’ school. Which would be fine, except that Auggie was born with severe facial deformities. Auggie is used to people looking away from him, whispering about, or staring at him when he’s not looking, but he’s just not […]
