The Night Bus Hero

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I know I shouldn't judge a middle grade book like this but this is the kind of book I have issues for the same. An inspiring and sweet tale that should help children be the best they can be and realise the power of kindness.

Despite the excitement, the adventure is also a way to bring everyone together so that a more important and sobering story can be told. She has also included The Homeless Code, which may be different in Britain that in the US, symbols used by thieves, and an Author's Note.For all that I talked about Hector, it’s the character of Thomas that for me really shines; he is by turns open but guarded, strong but vulnerable, a person not to be pitied but to be sympathised with. I also liked seeing how Hector changed throughout the story, learning about homelessness really changed his behavior and way that he views the world, by the end of the book he has settled down and is no longer a bully like his former friends Will and Katie (they may have been the influence on Hector's bullying in the first place). With that said, the last three chapters are superb, and did my voice break several times while reading the last chapter? His teachers don’t seem to like him (he certainly hates them), he particularly dislikes teacher’s pet Mei Lei, and he devotes his time to being mean to other kids and making them give him sweets.

This is an adventure/mystery book for kids to pick up, but at the same time it also gives children a way to know the unhoused community, to see where they're coming from and the way they built a community and how essential it is! Rauf's books that i have read, with the first being 'The boy at the back of the class', and have found myself once again amazed by how good her writing really is. And also that someone has been stealing statues and framing the homeless by leaving special marks that only they would understand. Unrepentant, he does however later see this homeless man appear to be the culprit behind a series of bizarre but fiendishly clever robberies in the city of London.

Negatívne pôsobiaci jedinci stojaci kdesi na čele detských príbehov síce nie sú zrovna typickí, britská autorka Onjali Q. Hector is a troubled young boy - labelled as a bully and a menace, he is stuck in an endless cycle of rule breaking and serving detentions under teachers who tell him how troublesome he is. Raúf handles his development in a very natural way, taking care to show gradual change without overwriting his actual character. It would have been a perfectly ordinary pot of soup, if it hadn’t been for the long, bright green rubber snake that was now floating around right in the middle of it.

I eventually realised it would provide great talking points for a class read aloud - why does this boy do the things he does? But it seems as though this name he’s getting as a trouble maker is starting to stick, and lately no-one believes him about anything, even when he’s telling the truth. Scenting a way of getting both rewards and recognition, he determines he needs to find out more about this homeless man, Thomas, from Mei-Li, who volunteers at the local soup kitchen. Her talent of writing and capturing the imagination of young people in a world full of crisis nurtures the emotional intelligence for those less fortunate than us, especially those that have come from unfortunate backgrounds.Her writing is refreshingly breezy and pulls the reader in immediately and compels them to stay to the end, to see what will become of her protagonists. The narrative of the bully opens up another avenue of discussion about actions and consequences and reasons for behaviour. The community of homeless people is portrayed vividly and intriguingly – from the sounds and smells of the soup kitchen to the night bus route to the system of painted symbols, their world is painted with dignity and compassion. Now the author gives young readers a little journey into the world of homelessness and adds to that a bully and a series of high-profile London thefts.

There's a lot going on in this novel as Raúf tackles themes of bullying, homelessness, behavior, family dynamics, and a mystery. Now I wave to them every day as I walk past, before taking all my payments in the far corner of the playground. I could keep writing about this book, but I will finish by saying if you haven’t read it then get a copy, you won’t regret it. Help your child develop kindness and empathy with these middle grade books that inspire compassion: whether that’s towards animals, friends, or people in very different situations to your own. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.With the help of his enemy Mei Lei, Hector must race against time to make sure justice is done - but that's not the only thing he needs to change. Hector’s parents have little time to pay him attention after school in fact the only attention that really feeds him is the incitement of his two friends, who cheer him on as he makes school life miserable for others.