Reddit reviews Wonder

I have The Book Thief but haven't read it yet, so I'll move it to the top of my list. I heard that it was great, but perhaps a bit of a tearjerker? Normally that's great, but I recently finished Wonder and The Fault in Our Stars and was tired of sobbing in front of the kids. Both were great books, though.

EDIT: also just added House of the Scorpion to my Amazon list so that I'll remember it when I'm ready for another book. Thanks for the recommendation!

Oh, haha, forgot the link:

Wonder https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0051ANPZQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_4sypzbFPB4K5Q

It's even being made into a movie now starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson.

I wouldnt wait for the movie though. Let the healing begin now!

<3

Wonder by R.J. Palacio, about a boy with facial deformities who goes to public school for the first time.

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, as recommended above.

Rules by Cynthia Lord, about a girl who has a brother with autism.

Pretty much anything by Laurie Halse Anderson, although her books tend to gear a little older than middle school (in my opinion, anyway).

Mockingbird by Erin Erskine, about a girl with aspergers.

The Thing About Luck, a National Book Award winner about a Japanese-American girl in the Midwest dealing with family issues.

Books that might be a stretch, but I'm not sure since I don't know all the details of your assignment (and some I just like for that age):

Holes by Lois Sachar. The Giver by Lois Lowry. Maniac Magee by Jerri Spinelli. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool. Savvy by Ingrid Law.


Hope these help!

I have an artificial left leg due to being born with Proximal femoral focal deficiency. My femur bone is only a few inches long, making my left foot end at the length of my right knee. Fortunately, it's also deformed enough that it turns downwards and I only have 3 toes, so it all fits nicely into an artifical leg. Although because of the length, I don't have an artificial knee. My knee is near my hip, so I can still pick up my leg easily to walk or run, albeit with a large limp in my gait.

I'm 35 years old now. When I was a teenager, I used to cry myself to sleep sometimes because "it wasn't fair" that I was this way. I would sit there and try to use my mind to heal my leg, wishing it would be normal. I would walk through the hallways of my high school always with my head held down in shame, "knowing" that I was worth less than everyone else. I stopped taking care of myself. I stopped taking showers and baths. I would go 4 to 6 weeks at times before my parents would finally effectively ridicule me enough in my own home not knowing what else to do, my mom making fun of how badly I smell so I would go wash myself. I didn't see the point as I was damaged goods.

As I got older, with enough experiences, I finally found acceptance that my experience with life will be different. I won't ever do regular squats, I won't even look great in shorts (e.g. normal), my leg will speak volumes because it's different and that's perfect. It's perfect because I found that the more confident I am, the more it amazes other people because they see my leg.

I realized in my situation, that most girls are even more attracted to me if I am super confident with my leg, because they are blown away "He must be really stable/smart if he's that happy and has an artificial leg" is what I imagine is going through their heads.

Now, because of my leg, I have the opportunity to help someone else over the internet (you) possibly see that they too are not of less value because of how their body looks.

Sure, you are missing out on the experience of a guy being into your breasts. Honestly though, I really dislike implants. They look good with clothes on to me, and that's it. Surely, I'm not every guy, but you also have to understand that there is nothing you could possibly due to look completely "normal" naked with regular nipples and breasts void of scars, lumps, feels natural etc. Just like I can't magically have a normal working new leg. The question is, can you accept that. Sure, you could improve yourself, but there is no "fixing" yourself, because you're already perfect. Your story of your issues could help a lot of other girls out there with the same self image issue. Your perfect the way you are the same reason I am. If I weren't this way, I wouldn't be relating my message to you.

The absolute best advice I can give you is to find self acceptance. Accept whatever situation you are in no matter what. To best illustrate this, I will leave you with a passage by Eckhart Tolle: (please excuse any typos).

"In the late seventies, I would have lunch every day with one or two friends in the cafeteria of the graduate center at Cambridge University, where I was studying. A man in a wheelchair would sometimes sit at a nearby table, usually accompanied by three of four people. One day, when he was sitting at a table directly opposite me, I could not help but look at him more closely, and I was shocked by what I saw. He seemed almost totally paralyzed. His body was emaciated, his head permanently slumped forward. One of the people accompanying him was carefully putting food in his mouth, a great deal of which would fall out again and be caught on a small plate another man was holding under his chin. Occasionally the wheelchair-bound man would produce unintelligible croaking sounds, and someone would hold an ear close to his mouth and then amazingly would interpret what he was trying to say.

Later I asked my friend whether he knew who he was. "Of course," he said, "he is a professor of mathematics, and the people with him are his graduate students. He has motor neuron disease that progressively paralyzes every part of the body. he has been given five years at the most. It must be the most dreadful fate that can befall a human being."

A few weeks later, as I was leaving the building, he was coming in, and when I held the door open for his electric wheelchair to come through, our eyes met. With surprise I saw that his eyes were clear. There was no trace in them of unhappiness. I knew immediately that he had relinquished resistance; he was living in surrender.

A number of years later when buying a newspaper at kiosk, I was amazed to see him on the front page of a popular international news magazing. Not only was he still alive, but he had by then become the world's most famous theoretical physicist, Steven Hawking. There was a beautiful line in the article that confirmed what I had sensed when I had looked into his eyes many years earlier. Commenting upon his life, he said (now with the help of the voice synthesizer), "Who could have wished for more?".
"

If you would like a really inspirational book that should also help you, it's called "Wonder". It's about a boy with almost no physical face, and his story of acceptance. Highly rated book. It's quite amazing and gave me inspiration in accepting myself: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051ANPZQ/ref=oh_d__o00_details_o00__i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I wish you the best! If you do get surgery, fully embrace it and love yourself afterwards regardless how it turns out.

Hopefully this works!

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Thanks for doing this! :)

If I win the $5 prize, I'd like these pink sunglasses please!

If I win the $10 prize, I'd like this ebook please!

My name is Carissa, hence the boring and unoriginal username. I would like the Kindle Fire because I had one and it was lovely. It served all of my purposes just fine. I was able to keep in contact with my Mom via FB, and I could read, check the weather etc. However, this weekend, while moving into our house it had a little accident. It was very wet outside, the bottom of the box broke and everything fell out into the muddy puddle. I tried to save it, but it was a lost cause. :(

Anyway, I've actually never read this book but I have always wanted to. I hope it's OK to post a book that is not [yet?] my favorite book.