The Girl at the Front of the Class
- Publisher : Hachette India
- Publishing year : September 2024
- Binding : Hardback
- ISBN : 9781526364654
- Imprint : Hodder
- Age Group : Baby & Toddler
- Language : English
There's a new girl in my class. She has eyes as wide and as golden as a tiger's, a face as pale as a glass of milk, and ...
There's a new girl in my class. She has eyes as wide and as golden as a tiger's, a face as pale as a glass of milk, and hair as shiny as a mirror. I'd like to be her friend. But she never wants to play with me in the playground or makes sandcastles in the sandpit.
Onjali Q. Rauf is the founder of Making Herstory, an organisation mobilising men, women and children from all walks of life to tackle the abuse and trafficking of women and girls in the UK and beyond. In her spare time she delivers emergency aid convoys for refugee families surviving in Calais and Dunkirk, and supports interfaith projects.
Her first novel, The Boy at the Back of the Class, won the Waterstone's Children's Prize and The Blue Peter Award. Her second book, The Star Outside My Window, published in October 2019 and she has written a 2020 World Book Day title that's a follow up to The Boy at the Back of the Class called The Day We Met the Queen.
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