Since Auggie is mad at Jack, Summer becomes his best friend, and their two families hit it off as well. Summer spends time with Auggie because she legitimately wants to be his friend, not because Mr. Auggie surprises Via by telling her that Miranda called to talk to him, and asked about her. Auggie, according to her, must move past such dilemmas and keep going to school. He reveals to her what happened with Jack, and she convinces him that some kids will always be mean. On Halloween, Via is confused when Auggie comes home early, claiming to be sick and refusing to go trick or treating. A rift continues to grow between Via and her former friends, and Via settles into new group. Via feels neglected after the first day of school, since her mother appears more concerned with Auggie's day than with hers.

Via is also dealing with school issues, since her former best friends, Miranda and Ella, stopped talking to her over the summer.

The only person who put her first was her grandmother, Grans, who is dead by the time the narrative begins. Via has had to come to terms with the fact that her family's universe revolves around Auggie and his needs hers often get pushed to the side. The story switches perspective to Via, Auggie's older sister, who begins high school at the same time that Auggie starts middle school. Jack is completely unaware that Auggie himself is sitting nearby, disguised in a Bleeding Scream costume. Things get a lot worse on Halloween, typically Auggie's favorite day of the year, when Auggie overhears Jack say to Julian and some other boys that he would kill himself if he looked like Auggie. Apparently, a rumor that touching Auggie will give you the 'plague' arises, so his classmates make a point of avoiding touching him, so that Auggie begins to feel alienated. He becomes friends with Jack, and with a girl named Summer who sits with him at lunch on the first day. While August is there, some of the kids who will be in August's grade take him on a tour of the school one of them, Jack Will, is nice, but another, Julian, is noticeably rude.Īuggie settles into the first few months of school and his classmates slowly get used to the way his face looks. They enroll him in Beecher Prep, a neighborhood private school, and take him to meet the principal, Mr. He has been homeschooled up until the fifth grade, but his parents have decided that it is time for him to go to a real school. He lives with his parents, his older sister Via, and his dog Daisy. August or 'Auggie' Pullman, a ten-year-old boy living in New York City, was born with a facial deformity that has made it difficult for him to make friends.

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