The Boy At the Back of the Class

Great way of opening discussions to do with identity and immigration on a child’s level and to develop their understanding of the issues around these topics.

The Boy at the Back of the Class is a super sweet and exciting book about a kid whose class gets a brand-new student named Ahmet, who sits in the very back row and is really quiet. After trying to become his friend by giving him lemon drops, the narrator and a group of friends find out that Ahmet is actually a refugee who had to escape a scary war in Syria and got separated from his family. When they hear that the gates to the country might close forever, they come up with a massive, top-secret plan called "The Greatest Plot in the World" to sneak past guards and ask the Queen of England for help! It is an awesome story that shows how far you will go for a friend and how being kind can totally change someone's life.

This book was fun to read and I would recommend it to other people to read it and I learnt a lots of facts on wars.

A wonderful book full of insights into the struggles of refugees.

I thought it was a little boring in the middle, a bit slow and repetitive.
Really heartwarming though.
About the power of friendship and taking risks.

i love Ms Hemsi and am so glad they found his parents in the end

This is a very good book as I found it very relatable to real life

I read this book with my mummy - a chapter a night. I liked this book as I learnt about refugees. I moved schools last year and know how hard it can be. Like in the book, I now have lots of friends and am happy.

A must read! This is a heartwarming masterpiece that tackles the global refugee crisis with child-like innocence and absolute sincerity. It is a crucial anchor text for
Years 4 - 6. It is an unmatched tool for cultivating a culture of kindness, addressing complex current events, and teaching the power of student-led advocacy.

its a book about a reffugee that comes from syria. his friends try to find his parents

My class loved this book. We looked forward to story time everyday :)

Themes of loss. A powerful read.

it was nice

Amazing! Such an inspiring message to young people to welcome the weak and helpless into our lives

Insightful novel highlighting how our actions impact on others.

Great

This book made me cry because I hate knowing that horrible things like war are happening to people everyday. It teaches to be grateful for what we have and understand what other people might have been through

I would recommend this book

I really enjoyed this book and it showed the unbreakable power of friendship.

It was a boy who traveled to England and my favorite person was Aphmat because he was new and really good at football I would recommend this to a person who loves playing football

This is a fiction book ,I like this book because it was very creative and unique .My favorite character was Ahmet because his journey from Syria to England.I would recommend this book to someone who likes the author of this book which is Onjali q Rauf.

It is a heartfelt book about a refugee boy named Ahmet . He makes friends with Alexa , Michael , Josie and Tom. The friends go to the Queen to tell her about poor boys like him. They soon become famous and take down Brendan the bully. Ahmet's family is found and life is amazing for them.

I really liked this book. It was very intriguing and interesting. I didn't like Mr Greggs, Mr Irons or Brendan The Bully.

I liked ahmet, with his skills in football and his bravery, but I didn't like Jennie, if that is what you call her.

I really want to like this book more than I do. It is so wonderful and important to have a story that explains the refugee crisis to children but as a book, it just didn't work for me. The implausible events towards the end just didn't fit with a story that was otherwise trying to be quite realistic and believable. The characters were also a bit 2 dimensional.

This was amazing. It was about a refuge boy called Ahmed who stood up for himself against a bully. I like Ahmed because he was confident. I would recommend to people who like a non-fiction books.

I loved how the boy and his friends tried to welcome the refugee boy and tried to be his friend

It’s sad but good. I find friends hard too

I like the description in it. My favourite character was the narrator as he was kind and always looked after his friend refugee named Amhet. I would recommend it to all my friends and family members

This is a book about a refugee boy and his friends. It felt like a real adventure with themes of death and exclusion. It was very interesting to learn about the world from the perspective of a refugee child. It was very intense and exciting but it also made me feel a bit sad.

very interesting and educational