So, Summer epitomizes that idea of choosing to be kind. You can also tweet your questions to the difference between Summer and Charlotte, another girl at the school Please send us your questions for Northrop. It tells the story of sixth-grader Jack Mogens, who must work to overcome his fears after he gets hit by a pitch in a baseball game. have to face a world every day that doesn't know how to face you back."įor October, we'll be reading Plunked by Michael Northrop. And that got me thinking a lot about what it must be like to. But instead what I ended up doing was leaving the scene so quickly that I missed that opportunity to turn the situation into a great teaching moment for my kids.
"What I should have done is simply turned to the little girl and started up a conversation and shown my kids that there was nothing to be afraid of. "I was really angry at myself afterwards for the way I had responded," she admits. She was trying to protect the girl but also avoid her own discomfort. Palacio's 3-year-old son cried in fear, so the author grabbed her kids and fled. They were at an ice cream store and sat next to a little girl with a severe facial deformity. Palacio tells NPR's Michele Norris that the book was inspired by a real-life encounter with her own kids six years ago. Palacio tells the story of Auggie, a tough, sweet, 10-year-old boy, who was born with distorted facial features - a "craniofacial difference" caused by an anomaly in his DNA. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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