Main Characters
This ten-year-old boy is the main character and is attending a real school for the first time in fifth grade.
Who is August (or Auggie) Pullman?
This kind classmate was the only student to sit with August at lunch on the first day of school without being asked.
Who is Summer Dawson?
This is the name of the game where students avoid touching August because they think he is contagious.
What is the Plague?
This is the name of the private middle school in Manhattan where August enrolls for the fifth grade.
What is Beecher Prep?
August used to wear this object all the time to hide his face and "blend in".
What is an astronaut helmet?
August is a massive fan of this movie series featuring characters like Boba Fett and Jango Fett.
What is Star Wars?
This student is the primary antagonist of the book who bullies August and spreads mean rumors.
Who is Julian Albans?
August is physically attacked in the woods by a group of aggressive seventh graders while attending this school event.
What is the nature retreat?
August and Jack Will won an "A" at the science fair for this specific project involving a vegetable.
What is the Spud Lamp?
Mr. Browne defines these as "rules about really important things" that help guide a person.
What are precepts?
This character is August’s older sister who often feels her needs come second to her brother's.
Who is Via?
This is the profession August’s mother, Isabel, had before she began homeschooling her son.
What is a children’s book illustrator?
August overhears his friend Jack Will betraying him while they are both wearing costumes on this holiday.
What is Halloween?
This English teacher writes a new rule to live by on the board every single month.
Who is Mr. Browne?
August cut this off the back of his head after his first day of school to try to fit in better.
What is his Padawan braid?
This character is the principal of Beecher Prep who works to create an inclusive environment for August.
Who is Mr. Tushman?
This character is Via’s boyfriend, a fiddle player who finds the Pullman household to be very warm and loving.
Who is Justin?
August notes that these two specific reactions from other students are common when they see his face for the first time.
What are stares and whispers?
August is surprised to receive this prestigious award at the end-of-year graduation ceremony.
What is the Henry Ward Beecher Medal?
August wore this mask on Halloween instead of his Boba Fett costume, which allowed him to go unrecognized.
What is the Bleeding Scream mask?
This is August’s homeroom teacher who left a career on Wall Street to teach middle-school math.
Who is Ms. Petosa?
This former best friend of Via gave August his first astronaut helmet and affectionately calls him "Major Tom".
Who is Miranda Navas?
August compares his situation at Beecher Prep to this specific concept from Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
What is the Cheese Touch?
This is the title of the play that Via and Justin performed in at their high school.
For a school art project, August drew this animal as a self-portrait because he felt it represented him.
What is a duck?