Wonder

Content Ratings

No Romance

There is no meaningful romantic content; a very brief, age-appropriate crush is referenced once but is not developed.

Moderate Themes

The novel depicts sustained social cruelty, bullying, and deliberate exclusion of a child with a visible medical difference, creating emotional intensity around themes of loneliness, peer rejection, and the difficulty of kindness.

No Violence

There is no physical violence; the central conflict involves social exclusion, bullying through words and deliberate social rejection, and the emotional impact of being treated as different.

Synopsis

Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman has a facial difference that has kept him out of mainstream school until fifth grade, and his first year at Beecher Prep forces him—and everyone around him—to confront questions of kindness, cruelty, and what it truly means to fit in. The story is told from multiple perspectives including classmates, a sister, and a friend. A warm, funny, and emotionally powerful novel about empathy and acceptance.