R. J. Palacio
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- Where should I start?
- With only one reviewed title on LuvemBooks, the answer is straightforward: start with Wonder. It is the book Palacio is known for, it stands entirely on its own, and its multi-narrator structure means it moves quickly between perspectives without requiring any prior knowledge of the characters. Its Amazon reader rating of 4.7/5 across more than 87,000 ratings suggests it holds up well beyond the initial buzz.
- What's their writing style?
- Palacio's most distinctive structural choice in Wonder is the use of multiple first-person narrators — the story cycles through the voices of the main character, his sister, his friends, and others, so the same events get refracted through different emotional lenses. The prose itself is accessible and direct, calibrated for middle-grade readers without being simplified. She tends to let moral weight accumulate through small, concrete moments rather than through overt messaging.
- Books we've reviewed
- LuvemBooks has reviewed one book by R. J. Palacio: Wonder, a children's novel told through rotating narrators that follows ten-year-old Auggie Pullman as he attends school for the first time, carrying an Amazon reader rating of 4.7/5 from over 87,000 ratings.
- What genre do they write?
- Wonder is categorized as a children's book, specifically middle-grade fiction, aimed roughly at readers aged eight to twelve. That said, it deals with themes — identity, belonging, the social hierarchies of school — that give it crossover appeal with adult readers. Palacio has not been reviewed in any other genre on LuvemBooks.
- What should I read after Wonder?
- If you want to stay close to the same world, Auggie & Me collects three companion novellas told from the perspectives of characters who appear in Wonder, offering a useful change of angle without departing from the story. For readers ready to move on, books like Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper or R. J. Palacio's broader thematic territory of difference and school life — such as The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate — are natural next steps.
- Has Wonder been adapted?
- Yes — Wonder was adapted into a film in 2017, directed by Stephen Chbosky and starring Jacob Tremblay as Auggie Pullman, with Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson as his parents. The film follows the novel's emotional arc closely while condensing the multi-narrator structure into a more conventional single-protagonist format. It performed well commercially and introduced the story to a large audience beyond the book's existing readership.
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Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories by R. J. Palacio
4.8/5
Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories is a companion volume to R. J. Palacio's widely beloved middle-grade novel Wonder, offering three separate narratives that place Auggie Pullman—the boy with a facial difference at the heart of the original book—in the background while three of his schoolmates take center stage. The collection brings together stories originally published as ebooks by Alfred A. Knopf/Random House in 2014 and 2015, gathered here in a single hardcover edition published by Knopf Books for Young Readers on August 18, 2015. With a Goodreads rating of 4.28 across nearly 39,000 ratings, it stands as a well-received extension of the Wonder universe, designed for readers ages 9–11 who want to stay in Auggie's world a little longer.
Reviewed Aug 18, 2026
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
4.7/5
R. J. Palacio's Wonder is a contemporary children's novel published on February 14, 2012, by Knopf Books for Young Readers, following ten-year-old August "Auggie" Pullman — a boy with Treacher Collins syndrome — as he navigates his first year at Beecher Prep after years of homeschooling. A New York Times bestseller that has sold over 16 million copies worldwide and been published in more than fifty languages, it received strong critical praise from outlets including Entertainment Weekly and Common Sense Media, and its message inspired the Choose Kind movement. The multi-perspective structure, which gives voice not only to Auggie but to his sister Via and classmates, is one of its most discussed structural choices; readers who prefer a single narrator may find the shifting viewpoints an adjustment, though many critics consider them a strength. It is designed for readers aged roughly 9–11 and remains one of the most widely assigned middle-grade novels of the past decade.
Reviewed Feb 23, 2026
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