The Night Bus Hero

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Empathy and the power of forgiveness take center stage in this poignant novel by the award-winning author of The Boy at the Back of the Class. It's written in the perspective of a bully and though the ending seemingly redeemed the main character, Hector, to the majority of the audience, I couldn't forget the first few stages of the book.

This moving story told with humor and heart presents readers with some recognizable characters, like a bully and a teacher’s pet, and introduces them to some they may not be so familiar with—like those who are homeless, who live on the street, and whose stories are equally meaningful and important. With an engaging mystery, we journey through the world of homelessness and friendship, questioning how we treat others, prejudice, stereotypes and what kindness is.This novel sees the protagonist blame a homeless man Thomas for stealing public statues around London, and Thomas soon becomes the most wanted homeless man in London. I refuse to pick up this book anymore due to Onjali's transphobic views that were made very clear during a speech she did in 2019, which you can read the transcript for here: https://womansplaceuk. I give this a 3; the main character is just so truly horrible for the majority of the book- I didn’t want to read about him. Even though his friends think the cruel stunt is great, Hector can't celebrate - his plan went wrong, and that had never happened before.

Rauf, the award-winning and best-selling author of The Boy at the Back of the Class, comes another incredible story, told with humour and heart. After a mishap with a homeless man's possessions, which wasn't entirely what Hector had planned, he finds himself unwillingly involved with the homeless community.Naturally, when another statue goes missing, Hector is convinced it's Thomas doing it, and decides to find him and turn him over to the police. Your class will count the syllables in each line of the haiku poem and see whether they were written correctly. What starts off as an attempt by Hector to avoid the consequences of his actions turns into a thrilling adventure with Thomas and Mei-Li, featuring a daring thief, a case of mistaken identity, a secret code and a growing understanding of not just what life is like for the homeless, but the wildly different circumstances that can lead people to lose everything. My kids and I listened to the audiobook on our holiday road trip and loved the idea of the narrative perspective coming from the antihero- the school bully. I think this so thought provoking and some incredibly interesting conversations could be had around this!

Raúf's craft is so beautiful, you are immersed in the story as soon as you open the book and everything feels so real. Author Guy Bass introduces SCRAP, about one robot who tried to protect the humans on his planet against an army of robots. Angry at the world, Hector decides to run off with the homeless man's trolley after school the next day.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.

People kept judged Hector by his actions and they thought he will not be able to change himself but he did. Showing off one day at the park, he ends up sending a homeless man's trolley into the lake, observed by Mei-Li, a girl in his class. This story highlights the topic of homelessness and explores the spectrum of attitudes that people hold towards homeless people, as well as exposing a number of common prejudices.

He is still frustrating, and thoughtless or hurtful at times, but he begins to understand how his actions affect others. Daily, Fern visits the Zuckermans to sit and muse with Wilbur and with the clever pen spider Charlotte, who befriends him when he is lonely and downcast. Together, the unlikely threesome of Hector, Mei-Li, and Thomas discovers the thieves’ patterns, but who will believe them? It soon becomes clear that Thomas has been wronged accused due to his appearance and the pair form and unlikely friendship that leads to them pursuing the actual culprit. In this literacy activity, your LKS2 class will have to find evidence from the text to support the statements given.