Director Stephen Chbosky’s “Wonder” – this holiday season’s feel-good movie – unfolds the plight of August, a precocious, witty and bullied middle schooler with a congenital facial deformity. This ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - It isn't every day that a movie offers an unflinching, painful, but ultimately gratifying glimpse into the lives of young people. "Wonder" is such a movie, following a 10-year-old ...

One day author R.J. Palacio sat outside a New York ice cream parlor with her son when a young girl sat down beside her. However, unlike other girls her age, this one had pronounced facial scars and ...

STAMFORD — Dina Zuckerberg was born with lack of hearing, a cleft lip, and no vision in her left eye. She was teased as a child, and her peers wouldn’t touch her because of “cooties.” But none of ...