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In White Bird, she has writ­ten and drawn a pow­er­ful graph­ic nov­el, con­tin­u­ing her explo­ration of vic­tims, per­pe­tra­tors, and bystanders, this time under the con­di­tions of Nazi-occu­pied France. Pala­cio exam­ined the issues of bul­ly­ing and dif­fer­ence through the lens of dis­abil­i­ty, using her autho­r­i­al voice to direct­ly encour­age empa­thy. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family.Holo­caust lit­er­a­ture for young read­ers reflect an inter­nal ten­sion: is the work specif­i­cal­ly about the his­to­ry of the Jew­ish people’s near-anni­hi­la­tion, or, more broad­ly, about the choice between col­lab­o­ra­tion and resis­tance when out­siders are con­front­ed with attacks on a mar­gin­al­ized group? In her works, Won­der and Aug­gie and Me, R.J. Her debut novel, Wonder, was an instant bestseller. Raquel Jaramillo Palacio is an American author and illustrated.

Evil will only be stopped when good people decide to put an end to it. It’s not up to God to make it end, Pastor.

That is the only thing one can be sure of in life: Time does not stop. In these dark times, it’s those small acts of kindness that keep us alive, after all. As Grandmère tells Julian, “It always takes courage to be kind, but in those days, such kindness could cost you everything.” With poignant symbolism and gorgeous artwork that brings Sara’s story out of the past and cements it firmly in this moment in history, White Bird is sure to captivate anyone who was moved by the book Wonder or the blockbuster movie adaptation and its message. Sara’s harrowing experience movingly demonstrates the power of kindness to change hearts, build bridges, and even save lives. Here, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grandmère’s heartrending story: how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend. Palacio’s bestselling collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian’s grandmother, Grandmère.