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Onjali Q. Raúf

Onjali Q. Raúf is the founder and CEO of Making Herstory, a UK nonprofit that works to fight human trafficking and gender-based abuses and crimes. She is the author of The Boy at the Back of the Class, The Star Outside My Window, The Night Bus Hero, and Heroes Like Us: Two Stories. She lives in the UK.
The Night Bus Hero
The Star Outside My Window
The Boy at the Back of the Class

Books

The Night Bus Hero
The Star Outside My Window
The Boy at the Back of the Class

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