Wonder by Palacio. R.J. ( 2013 ) Paperback

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Sometimes the unkindness is on purpose, like Julian’s bullying, and sometimes the unkindness is just thoughtlessness, like the way some people stare at Auggie when they don’t think he is looking. Anna O’Donnell is an 11-year-old girl living in Ireland in the 1830’s. She claims not to have eaten food for the past four months and is living on manna from heaven. Religion plays an important presence in this story. Auggie has been home-schooled for his whole life because he needed lots of operations when he was younger. He feels the same as everyone else on the inside but knows that most people don’t see him that way. As time passes, Lib learns the dynamics of this small community, its legends and superstitions, as well as the family’s belief system which is deeply religious. Anna, in fact, is obsessed with religious passages and cards. Lib Wright was a nurse alongside Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War, escaping her own personal issues. But after the war, even for a Nightingale Nurse, life is monotonous; she is treated with disdain by her supervisors and fellow nurses, and is left to little more than menial work. But when an unusual opportunity for work comes her way, she jumps at the chance.

Elizabeth Lib Wright, una joven enfermera inglesa, es contratada por un comité de ciudadanos del pueblo para vigilar a la niña durante dos semanas, con el objeto de otorgar credibilidad al “milagro”. Se turnará en esa vigilancia con una monja, la hermana Michael. Donoghue does a fine job of shifting the storyline into a well-tuned crescendo at the end. That was worth the price of admission. Although a fictional account of the young Anna, the author was inspired by almost 50 accounts of Fasting Girls going for long periods of time with no food between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. The Wonder is a very atmospheric, Gothic, Irish tale. But it's quiet and pastoral too; more of a Wuthering Heights Gothic than a Bram Stoker. Lib is alone in this little bubble, in the very centre of Ireland, far from what many would deem to be "civilization". The family’s superstitions about the little folk and the small discoveries that Lib can’t explain add an eeriness that permeates the entire book.

Trained by Florence Nightingale, Nurse Libby is requested to stand 'watch' over a child who has apparently not eaten a thing in 4 months, yet remains alive and vibrant. Between Libby and a nun, they are to take shifts so the child (Abby) is never alone, helping to ensure that this is not a hoax. of view. The importance of kindness is a central theme in the novel. We see the positive impact that choosing kindness can have on everyone's life.

In Wonder, Mr. Browne assigned a precept to each month. 365 Days of Wonder states 365 different precepts collected by Mr. Browne. It also has thoughts and opinions by Mr. Browne after every month in the book.

This does have a sense of mystery to it in that so many are trying to prove their side of Anna’s story. Is she surviving on air and water alone or is she somehow obtaining nourishment some other way? There are over 50 cases documented between the 16th and 20th century, of what were termed “Fasting Girls” in Europe and North America, even though that’s a lengthy period of time for only a relatively small number of cases, why would anyone choose to fast permanently? You can't blend in when you were born to stand out." This is a quote from Wonder by RJ Palacio, which tells the story of Auggie's first year at school in New York. Auggie was born with severe facial differences.