The Night Bus Hero

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Our narrator this time is the school bully. And while he's telling the story so we do feel a connection with him, he's - well - a bully. And pretty horrible to other children at school. Onjali has set herself to a difficult task here: the narrator has busy & absent parents, is a bully at school and at some point, to impress his (bad-company) friends, targets a local homeless for his cruelty. However, she writes in a very engaging way and that partially offsets the heavy theme. Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments The three way chats, in which they are joined by other animals, about web spinning, themselves, other humans—are as often informative as amusing, and the whole tenor of appealing wit and pathos will make fine entertainment for reading aloud, too.

I’ve been getting into trouble for as long I can remember. Usually I don’t mind ‘cos some of my best, most brilliant ideas have come from sitting in detention. But recently it feels like no one believes me about anything - even when I'm telling the truth! And it's only gotten worse since I played a prank on the old man who lives in the park. Education Shed Ltd, Severn House, Severn Bridge, Riverside North, Bewdley, Worcestershire, UK, DY12 1AB I've been getting into trouble for as long I can remember. Usually I don't mind 'cos some of my best, most brilliant ideas have come from sitting in detention. But recently it feels like no one believes me about anything - even when I'm telling the truth! And it's only gotten worse since I played a prank on the old man who lives in the park. Everyone thinks I'm just a bully. They don't believe I could be a hero. But I'm going to prove them all wrong...I think this so thought provoking and some incredibly interesting conversations could be had around this! I loved Hector's character development and although his behaviour was unacceptable, it was clearly a cry for help due to neglect from his busy parents and a need to be liked, no matter whether that is bad or good attention. As a trainee teacher, this resonated with me because all types of behaviour is a form of communication and we must look beyond our assumptions that a child is just a 'bad kid'.

I also have a wider knowledge of the homeless after reading this, and I don't think I could ever walk past a person on the street in the same way again. I am grateful for this insight into the challenges and terrors that these people face in their daily lives and have even more respect for them than I did before. Synonyms are words which have the same or similar meanings. This resource teaches your class how to make their writing more interesting. I appreciate the themes of this story: problematic kids being misunderstood (but also I couldn't ignore the fact that the main character and his friends are bullies and they are actually problematic), busy working parents with three small kids (but also negligence at its best..or worse I would say), judging the homeless (but also entrusting your kids to their company blindly... that's unrealistic)... 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. Her first took in the serious topic of refugees but mixed it with friendship, school and the Queen. 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. She's not afraid of a challenge, and yet again makes a warming and insightful plot out of disparate elements that work together nicely.

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This modern fairy-tale with a brilliantly inspiring young heroine is one of Roald Dahl's best loved stories. Hector is very nasty piece of work at the start of the book. He is an archetypal bully with two henchman and a serious attitude problem. But because Hector is telling the story we soon realise that he is dealing with troubles of his own, and as we know, most bullies are troubled humans.

He’s got so little sympathy for a local homeless man Thomas (who is taking up space in the park, including a bench Hector would like to sit on) that he ends up pushing Thomas’s trolley containing his only worldly possessions into the park pond without a single thought of how much hurt that would cause. Hector is a bully. He steals from the other kids, and torments them with physical and verbal abuse. But then an act of revenge against Thomas, a local homeless man who dared to defend himself, goes very wrong and Hector realises he could get in serious trouble this time. Especially since it was witnessed by Mei-Li, the “teacher’s pet” from his class.In this follow-up to 2020’s The One and Only Bob, Ruby the elephant is still living at Wildworld Zoological Park and Sanctuary. Hector is a most unlikable protagonist, but then readers see his family's dynamics and the things he does are almost understandable in his need to get some attention his way. And while you may feel some empathy, it only lasts momentarily, as he commences his bad acts again. But, Hector is a boy who is and does deserve redemption. A clever artist who needs his talents redirected. Thereby begins a bit of a roller coaster adventure to discover just who else is targetting the homeless community after valued London icons start mysteriously disappearing. There is a bit of a Scooby Doo feel to this part of the story, but it does help to lighten the mood a little, without taking away from the main messages of the story... i.e. don't judge books by their covers and take the time to get to know people. The boy's an absolute menace.' 'He's a bully. A lost cause!' 'Why can't he be more like his sister?' Your class will count the syllables in each line of the haiku poem and see whether they were written correctly.