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A review by aishaayoosh
The Boy At the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf
5.0
This book centres on one of the huge global issues of our time: the refugee crisis. It does so with enormous sensitivity and even humour.
The author tackles people’s attitudes toward refugees throughout the book. This is mostly done via children relaying and querying what they have heard adults saying to them.
It is this questioning, and the conversations that follow, that the book brings to light the many views and opinions in society on this issue.
The children in this book trying to help Ahmet (the refugee boy) find his family have a very strong sense of empathy and upstanding moral upbringing.
The children raise difficult questions to their parents and adults around them, which in turn as a reader makes you put those questions to yourself to form your own opinions.
For me it plainly stands out how important it is for parents & adults alike to nurture this in our children & family youngsters, guide them the best way we can towards kindness, love and standing up for what is right!
This book’s greatest strength is how it opens up conversations instead of shutting them down. The Boy at the Back of the Class is not only a well-written book that begs the reader to keep reading, but also one that opens up a dialogue that we need to be having with our young people!!
The author tackles people’s attitudes toward refugees throughout the book. This is mostly done via children relaying and querying what they have heard adults saying to them.
It is this questioning, and the conversations that follow, that the book brings to light the many views and opinions in society on this issue.
The children in this book trying to help Ahmet (the refugee boy) find his family have a very strong sense of empathy and upstanding moral upbringing.
The children raise difficult questions to their parents and adults around them, which in turn as a reader makes you put those questions to yourself to form your own opinions.
For me it plainly stands out how important it is for parents & adults alike to nurture this in our children & family youngsters, guide them the best way we can towards kindness, love and standing up for what is right!
This book’s greatest strength is how it opens up conversations instead of shutting them down. The Boy at the Back of the Class is not only a well-written book that begs the reader to keep reading, but also one that opens up a dialogue that we need to be having with our young people!!