contemporary texts provides insights into the struggles and challenges of young people living in the present day. To what extent does wonder explore these ideas?

This is very much a thematic question. The genre of this novel, coming of age or Bildungsroman, allows for many of your mentioned points to be developed in a modern context. Unfortunately, this is only a short answer space. I can't go into that much detail. If you check out the themes link below, you should be able to gather most of your information.