The power of friendship is also an important theme. We witness friendships being made, broken and renewed. Wonder by RJ Palacio is one of my all-time favourite books – it made me think about how ...

Credit: Mashable The first thing you'll notice about author R.J. Palacio is her incredible ... social action That's a major theme of Palacio's best-selling book Wonder, which was recently adapted ...

In Wonder, R.J. Palacio’s debut middle-grade novel featuring Auggie, a fifth-grade boy born with a facial deformity, the author delivered a powerful message about the importance of kindness ...

In Wonder, R.J. Palacio tells the story of Auggie, a tough, sweet, 10-year-old boy, who was born with distorted facial features — a "craniofacial difference" caused by an anomaly in his DNA.

Raquel Jaramillo's debut novel, Wonder, written under the pen name R.J. Palacio, was born out of a rather embarrassing incident. The author was out with her two sons, sitting in front of an ice ...

Mother Jones: Wonder was inspired by your own encounter at an ice cream shop, with a kid who had Treacher Collins syndrome. Tell me about that. R.J. Palacio: We found ourselves sitting right ...

Lionsgate nabbed the rights to “White Bird: A Wonder Story,” a forthcoming graphic novel from author R.J. Palacio. The studio recently adapted her popular book “Wonder” into a feature film ...

Wonder has been trumpeted as "a book that has made grown men weep" and I admit it put me a little on my guard before reading this debut novel. Its author R.J Palacio is a New York-based graphic ...