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Summary Of Wonder By R. J. Palacio
In the story Wonder by, R.J. Palacio, a boy named August who was born with a deformed face. Auggie is self conscious about going to school, his face, and about meeting friends.

Auggie is self conscious about going to school, Auggie goes to visit the school to see if he wants to go to school. When he gets there, there are people that principal asked to come to take Auggie on a tour around the school. All he did was look down the whole time because he knew people would stare at him or start gossiping about him. This all proves that Auggies is self conscious about going to school.

Auggie is also self conscious about his face,as I said in the beginning, Auggie was born with a deformed face. So whenever Auggie has to meet somebody he will most

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