One in four children is bullied every day in the United States. Every day 160,000 students do not go to school for fear of being victims of bullying. Being the new kid on the block is hard enough without having a very obvious facial deformity. In Wonder, the author, RJ Palacio, writes about a boy that teenagers can empathize with since most teenagers have been bullied at least once in their lives. I would highly recommend this book to my fellow peers for its excellent quality. Ten-year-old August Pullman, or as his friends and family call him, Auggie, required several reconstructive surgeries as a child because he was born with Treacher-Collins syndrome, a rare craniofacial deformity. Because of this, Auggie was never able to attend a public school and was home-schooled until the fifth grade. A month before school, Auggie and his mother take a tour of Beecher Prep, where he meets three students; Charlotte, Jack Will and Julian. During Auggie's tour with the students, Julian makes very rude comments about his face and the other kids scold him for it. On the first day of school, Auggie realizes...