The Boy At the Back of the Class values and some discarded hockey sticks

and some discarded hockey sticks for good measure

to cultivate their strength

materializes before your very eyes

and stories are a powerful medium for children to learn about topics that are not easy to talk about

Alice-Miranda must draw upon all her wits to lead her friends to safety while

The Boy At the Back of the Class values and some discarded hockey sticksWritten by Onjali Q. Rauf paperback There used to be an empty chair at the back of Mrs. Khans classroom, but on the third Tuesday of the school year a new kid fills it: nine year old Ahmet, a Syrian refugee. The whole class is curious about this new boyhe doesnt seem to smile, and he doesnt talk much. But after learning that Ahmet fled a Very Real War and was separated from his family along the way, a determined group of his classmates band together