![]() ![]() Wonder fans will recognize the themes of kindness, bravery, and friendship that shine throughout White Bird, which Palacio says are absolutely relevant today, in a phone interview with Romper, touching on the difficulties of educating kids about the atrocities that took place in the lead up to and during World War II. Forced into hiding, Sara's only lifeline is Julien, a boy she sat next to in school, but never got to know - in part because he is disabled and ostracized. ![]() White Bird tells the story of Sara, a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied France. middle school, though there is an important link. Palacio's latest book, White Bird, a historical graphic novel that she wrote and illustrated about the Holocaust, is a bit of a departure, then, from the fĂȘted world of U.S. ![]() There are companion books, which have each been successful in their own right, paving a path for her to continue to write within that universe. Drawn from an incident in Palacio's own life as a mother, the book inspired an entire generation of kids to be kind - there is a 2017 film adaptation. ![]() Palacio's 2012 middle-grade novel Wonder, about a fifth-grader bullied for his a facial disfiguration, and the friends who would defend him, became an instant classic. ![]()
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