A little girl with facial differences inspired R.J. Palacio to write the beloved anti-bullying novel -- now a movie starring Jacob Tremblay and Julia Roberts ...

R.J. Palacio: We found ourselves sitting right next to a little girl who had a very significant facial difference. My younger son was about three at the time. He got scared, basically.

“Wonder,” the children’s book by R.J. Palacio that was adapted into a 2017 movie starring Julia Roberts, is headed to Broadway as a new musical, Lionsgate along with Palacio and producer ...

R.J. Palacio's kids' novel, Wonder, about a fifth grader with a facial deformity, was no instant hit. Six months after its release on Valentine Day's 2012, it landed on USA TODAY's extended list ...

In fourth grade, our teachers read to us from “Wonder” by R.J. Palacio. “Wonder” is the inspiring story of August “Auggie” Pullman, a fifth-grader with a facial deformity.

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.

In R.J. Palacio's new novel, a middle-schooler with a facial deformity struggles to fit in. Raquel Jaramillo, the author behind the pen name, says she found it more interesting to write about ...