Chris's story brings an important lesson that true friendships require effort. Chris and Auggie, a boy with a congenital facial deformity, have known each other since birth and spent their childhood together. The warm and empathetic narrative jumps between memories from their early childhood and a single day in the present, at the end of which Chris makes a decision that he thinks is best, even though it is not the easiest for him. (summarized from the main page of Ocean Publishing)