“We got used to it’ – hate comments against eleven-year-olds after winning a reading competition. “Miracle’ by RJ Palacio, which has already been made into a film starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson, tells a story about exclusion.

The successful reader's parents were born in Egypt and both studied in Germany. The Rhinelanders are friendly and open people, they tell the Bonn General-Anzeiger. Things were different in Leipzig, Saxony, where the family lived before moving to Bonn.