White Bird

Recommended Ages: 8-12

Written by R.J. Palacio.

In R. J. Palacio's bestselling collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian's grandmother, Grandmère. In this book, White Bird, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grandmère's astonishing story. White Bird details how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she and her classmates once shunned, became her savior and best friend.