The Boy at the Back of the Class

Saturday 19/09/2026

Me reading Boy at the Back of the Class in my father's study.

Author:

Onjali Q. Raúf

Genre:

Children's Fiction

What it’s about:

This novel is written in the perspective of a girl called Alexa. This character is friends with a Syrian refugee. On the refugee’s travel to England his parents get lost, his friend, Alexa is determined to help find Ahmet’s (the refugee boy) parents before the “gates close”.

This book was set during mid-2010. This book has non-fiction and fiction settings:

Alexa’s house
A primary school
The underground
Buckingham Palace.

Best bit:

I love The Greatest Idea in the World. The plan was to send a letter to the Queen (Queen Elizabeth the II) to say, keep the gates open. When time starts running out, they then make an emergency plan involving seeing the Queen in person.

Favourite character:

Ahmet. A boy who escaped from Syria to London but loses his parents on the way.

Rating:

4.5 out of 5