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The Star Outside My Window
by Onjali Q. Raúf
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
“Mum has left and turned into a star.
All I know is — that was when I heard a loud crack from somewhere deep inside my chest, and a loud explosion taking place high up in the skies, and a creaking as if the world had stopped turning and didn’t know how to move again.”
The Star Outside My Window is a delicately written tale about domestic abuse, and its toll on children.
Onjali Q Rauf is well known for couching important, difficult issues in beautiful storytelling — arming her young readers with experience, knowledge and instilling in them the compulsion to act.
As Aniyah starts life anew at a foster home with her brother, Noah, the Royal Observatory reports a newly-born star. Millions of people join a contest to name this star.
With their new friends from foster care, this band of star hunters set out on a journey to the Observatory. They need to get there before this new name is picked - because this star is Mum and it’s got to have her name.
As the story unravels, then does Aniyah and the reader gradually cope with the reality of what her father has done. Why all the kitchen plates were missing. Why her Mum had to wear long sleeve sweaters in the summer. Why Dad had to “move the furniture around so much” they broke.
Why life was lived round trying to make sure Dad’s switch did not get flipped.
Do not hesitate to pick up such a book for your young reader, in fact, pick any Onjali Q Rauf title. This is what literature is written and read for.
At the back of the book, Onjali talks about how she lost her 29-yo aunt more than a decade ago to domestic abuse, and the trauma on her family. Yet this book bleeds with tears and sings with hope, for humanity steps up and needs to continue to do so.
📚: @times.reads
All I know is — that was when I heard a loud crack from somewhere deep inside my chest, and a loud explosion taking place high up in the skies, and a creaking as if the world had stopped turning and didn’t know how to move again.”
The Star Outside My Window is a delicately written tale about domestic abuse, and its toll on children.
Onjali Q Rauf is well known for couching important, difficult issues in beautiful storytelling — arming her young readers with experience, knowledge and instilling in them the compulsion to act.
As Aniyah starts life anew at a foster home with her brother, Noah, the Royal Observatory reports a newly-born star. Millions of people join a contest to name this star.
With their new friends from foster care, this band of star hunters set out on a journey to the Observatory. They need to get there before this new name is picked - because this star is Mum and it’s got to have her name.
As the story unravels, then does Aniyah and the reader gradually cope with the reality of what her father has done. Why all the kitchen plates were missing. Why her Mum had to wear long sleeve sweaters in the summer. Why Dad had to “move the furniture around so much” they broke.
Why life was lived round trying to make sure Dad’s switch did not get flipped.
Do not hesitate to pick up such a book for your young reader, in fact, pick any Onjali Q Rauf title. This is what literature is written and read for.
At the back of the book, Onjali talks about how she lost her 29-yo aunt more than a decade ago to domestic abuse, and the trauma on her family. Yet this book bleeds with tears and sings with hope, for humanity steps up and needs to continue to do so.
📚: @times.reads