{"id":96,"date":"2019-02-12T13:54:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T13:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/?p=96"},"modified":"2019-02-12T13:54:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T13:54:58","slug":"the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-by-onjali-rauf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2019\/02\/12\/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-by-onjali-rauf\/","title":{"rendered":"The boy at the back of the class by Onjali Rauf"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41Mmw73n5nL._SX324_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" width=\"254\" height=\"389\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The boy at the back of the class<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Told with heart and humour, The Boy at the Back of the Class is a child&#8217;s perspective on the refugee crisis, highlighting the importance of friendship and kindness in a world that doesn&#8217;t always make sense.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There used to be an empty chair at the back of my class, but now a new boy called Ahmet is sitting in it.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s nine years old (just like me), but he&#8217;s very strange. He never talks and never smiles and doesn&#8217;t like sweets &#8211; not even lemon sherbets, which are my favourite!<\/p>\n<p>But then I learned the truth: Ahmet really isn&#8217;t very strange at all. He&#8217;s a refugee who&#8217;s run away from a War. A real one. With bombs and fires and bullies that hurt people. And the more I find out about him, the more I want to help.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where my best friends Josie, Michael and Tom come in. Because you see, together we&#8217;ve come up with a plan. . .<\/p>\n<p><i>With beautiful illustrations by Pippa Curnick<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Told with heart and humour, The Boy at the Back of the Class is a child&#8217;s perspective on the refugee crisis, highlighting the importance of friendship and kindness in a world that doesn&#8217;t always make sense. There used to be an empty chair at the back of my class, but now a new boy called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2019\/02\/12\/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-by-onjali-rauf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The boy at the back of the class by Onjali Rauf&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}