WONDER is a warm-hearted fiction story about a boy named Auggie Pullman beginning middle school. Auggie was previously homeschooled due to facial abnormalities requiring many surgeries throughout childhood, so it's a big transition for him. As you can imagine, society very rarely reacts initially with grace. Strangers on the street are routinely terrible, and the kids at school are mostly awful. But Palacio also narrates from the POV of the Pullman family and friends, who share their very honest experiences meeting and befriending Auggie - keeping the reader challenged with their own uncomfortable feelings as well. 
 Fun story: I definitely squeezed this onto my April TBR thinking the movie adaptation was still coming out today - but it seems the date was pushed last month to November. Sooo here's looking at you, future holiday feel-good!