Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Raquel Jaramillo Book order (chronological)
- Raquel J. Palacio
The Paper Wife
- 200 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Amid the changing political and social environment of a Colorado college campus, three friends--Lily, Kate, and Turner, a young man drawn to both women--must confront such issues as loneliness, pregnancy, and the disintegration of friendships
A comprehensive history of Native Americans in the second half of the nineteenth century covering from when the Navaho were removed from their land in the 1860s to the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.