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I hate to admit it, but I was kind of afraid of him back then. I never talked to the accordion-man myself.

I know because it was my first year at Beecher Prep, which means I was in kindergarten. He had no way of knowing this, of course, so he didn’t wave back.īeatrix was eight then. “Joni is a black Labrador, missy,” he answered. I know because my sister Beatrix asked him one day. The dog wore a red bandanna around its neck. He sat on a stool under the awning of the A&P supermarket on the corner of Moore Avenue, his seeing-eye dog lying down in front of him on a blanket. There was a blind old man who played the accordion on Main Street, who I used to see every day on my way to school. How Some Things Changed, and Some Things Didn’t How Maya Was Surprised and Surprised Us All How I Failed to Prevent a Social Catastrophe How I Received My Second Surprise of the Day How I Received My First Surprise of the Day How Nobody Gets Mad at the Lavender Fairy How I Wanted to Tell Ellie About My Talk with Jack Will Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read. Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.ĭuncan Dancers image courtesy of Carnegie Hall ArchivesĮducators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Published in the United States by Alfred A.

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You have to be a friend.THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. Readers will not only learn more about Charlotte and her budding friendship with reader-favorite, Summer (they solve a mystery together), but how the girls at Beecher Prep react to Auggie attending their school for the first time, and how Charlotte came to write the precept she used at the end of Wonder, "It's not enough to be friendly. In Shingaling, the third Wonder Story, they'll read about life as a fifth grader at Beecher Prep through the eyes of Charlotte, the girl who had been chosen to be Auggie's "welcome" buddy.

Readers have also been given a special look at another side of Auggie's story with The Julian Chapter and a peek at his life before Beecher Prep in Pluto. WONDER IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS AND JACOB TREMBLAY!Over 3 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder-the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement-and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face.