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m0rganh 's review for:
The Julian Chapter
by R.J. Palacio
A slightly gratuitous but understandable extension to the phenomenon that was/is Wonder. In this short story, Auggie's nemesis, Julian, gets to tell his side of the story which essentially involves Palacio using this snarky eleven year old as a megaphone to remind us that we're all just human beings/there are no good or bad people/actions have consequences/we fear what we don't understand/yadda yadda yadda. These are certainly important lessons to learn and I'm glad there's another story for kids from a bully's perspective (a la Twerp)...but if Julian said "peeps," "dude," "haters," "yo," or "like" one more time, I was going to lose my mind. I said it with Wonder and I'll say it again: why does Palacio make these fifth graders act like posturing middle schoolers?