# Wonder

**Author:** R.J. Palacio
**Lexile:** 790L
**Grade range:** Grades 3–7
**Age range:** 8–13
**First published:** 2012
**Page count:** 320
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780375869020`
**ISBN-10:** `0375869026`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/wonder
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

August Pullman has a facial difference and is starting 5th grade at a mainstream school after years of homeschooling. The novel rotates through multiple narrators — Auggie, his sister, his classmates — and has become a fixture of 4th-6th grade ELA curricula for its accessibility and its anti-bullying framing.

## Themes

- facial difference
- kindness
- bullying
- family
- friendship
- empathy

## Content notes

- bullying
- medical procedures referenced

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 9+

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B contemporary addition](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · California — [source: CA CCSS ELA grade 5 — anti-bullying unit text](https://www.cde.ca.gov/)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · New York — [source: NY Next Gen Standards grade 5 — frequently-taught contemporary text](https://www.nysed.gov/)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 6-8 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Texas — [source: TEKS grade 6 frequently-taught contemporary text](https://tea.texas.gov/)

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