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Shingaling is a short story by R.J. Palacio that focuses on Charlotte Cody, who is a student and one of August Pullman's welcoming buddies in R.J. Palacio's Wonder, and is told from her perspective. It is one of the three short stories in the collection of novellas by the title, Auggie & Me.

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Charlotte was one of August's welcoming buddies when he first came to Beecher Prep. She goes on to see how the girls at Beecher Prep react to Auggie attending their school for the first time, in addition to beginning a friendship with Summer and Ximena. Told from her perspective, Shingaling is the story of how Charlotte came to write the precept she used at the end of Wonder, "It's not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend."

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