This is an emotional rollercoaster of a story, about the 9-year-old protagonist, ‘me’, and how she befriended a ‘refugee kid’ who had recently joined the class. This leads to adventures like no other and a story line that needed recognition.
It handles topics like racism, migrants, refugees, grief and more. For a middle-grade, I think this was done well. We learn about the ‘refugee crisis’ in the Uk from the prospective of a child and how personal views often fall into a ‘for’ or ‘against refugees’ category.
This is the authors debut, and I hope to read more from her in the future. I loved this book, it was a short read that kept me hooked, from the beginning until the end. I Absolutely recommend reading this book, for kids and adults alike.
- Rating: 5 stars
- Setting: London, England
- Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
- Publication date: 2018
- Pages: 297
- Illustrated
- Price: £6.99
- ISBN: 978-1-5101-0501-0
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