White Bird

by: R.J. Palacio

It starts off with a project, as a part of his family history school project. It ends with a story Grandmère has never told anyone before, of her life living during World War II and the Holocaust, being Jewish. Everything, from becoming friends with Julien Beaumier, a boy with polio who sat next to her for 3 years but she had never spoken a word to him. How the Beaumiers saved her life, and how she lived before, a girl who was a bit spoilt by her parents.

Being a Wonder story, it was a very good book. It was also a graphic novel with detailed illustrations, so readers could picture what her life was. If it was a novel like Wonder, it would have been hard to fully understand the story without the illustrations.

What I thought about the book:

I felt it was very nice. A bit of a sad story because of how she was bullied as a kid for being Jewish and other events. I also liked that Julian (the grandson) reflected on how he felt about how he bullied Auggie Pullman. It was kind of like Sara and Julien... she didn't speak a word to him until one day when she dropped her notebook. And after that when she living in a barn, they were best friends! Spending hours together, playing cards, driving to safari's in Africa in their "car."