On the 23rd November 2012 p6/7F did an assembly about our book study called Wonder. We took quotes from the novel and created a short play about it.  Wonder is written by RJ Palacio.  We took time doing it and it turned out to be a really good assembly.

The book is about a 10 year old boy called August who was born with a facial disfigurement, RJ Palacio states in the blurb that we should not “Judge a boy by his face”.  August is about to start his new school at Beecher Prep and August is scared about how people at his school will react to his face. During one scene August’s sister Via takes August to the park and two children come along and when they see August’s face they stand in shock.  As Via is very protective of Auggie she shouts at them and chases them off.  Auggie would prefer if she just ignored them.  

Also in another scene Auggie started his first day at Beecher Prep and when the bell rang all of the children started pointing and staring and him, but when lunchtime arrives Auggie meets a new friend called Summer and she goes to sit with her friends but notices that Auggie is sitting by himself and walks over and sits next to him and gets to know Auggie.  He is a funny,intelligent,kind and smart boy and Summer took time to get to know this and to find out how nice he really is on the inside. She didn’t judge a book by its cover.

 So if you get the chance someday you should read the novel “Wonder”.

by Morven Lee