The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf

Author:Onjali Q. Raúf
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2019-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

In the movies, people who go on a Top-Secret Mission always have lots of fun gadgets and maps and ropes and sometimes even wear a cool hat. When you’re nine and over three-quarters, though, and have to go to school every day, rescue missions are a lot harder—especially when you don’t know where the people you want to rescue are, and you have to hide everything you’re doing from the person you’re going on the mission for.

But even though we didn’t have any gadgets or ropes or hats, we spent recess and lunch and time after school trying to think up ideas that might help Ahmet find his family quickly. By Thursday morning, Tom and Josie and Michael had each come up with a plan. But I hadn’t been able to think of anything.

“Don’t worry,” said Josie. “You can help us see if our ones will work.”

I tried to smile but it didn’t make me feel any better.

On the way to school we went through all the plans. Tom went first. He said we should write to the prime minister to tell her to keep the gates open until Ahmet had found his family. He had even gotten the address of the prime minister’s house from his dad and written out the letter.

This is what it looked like:

Dear Prime Minster,

We heard from some peeple on the bus that the Goverment was going to lock the gates so that no more Refujees could come in. But our friend Ahmet is a refujee boy—you might have heard about him becaus he’s famuos for beating up Brendan the Bully and he doesn’t know where his mum and dad are and needs to find them. Please Prime Minster can you please keep the gates open so that he can find them and so that he can be happy again?

Thank You.

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