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The Boy at the Back of the Class
Book · 2019
The Boy at the Back of the Class
8–12Best for kids★ 4.4
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A nine-year-old narrator watches a silent new boy, a Syrian refugee named Ahmet, arrive at the back of the class. Football is how the narrator and his friends finally reach him, and it stays the common language between them for the rest of the book.
Why we picked it
Soccer is the bridge here rather than the subject, which is exactly the argument for playing the game. It won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award, so it holds up as a read-aloud for a whole family.
