{"product_id":"home-of-the-brave-book-katherine-applegate-9780312367657","title":"Home of the Brave","description":"Kek comes from Africa.\u003cp\u003eIn America, he sees the snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He's never walked on ice, and he falls. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter--cold and unkind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she's missing. Kek is on his own. Slowly, he makes friends: a girl who is in foster care, and old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means family in his native language. As Kek awaits word of his mother's fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his few friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bestselling author Katherine Applegate presents a beautifully wrought novel about an immigrant's journey from hardship to hope. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherine Applegate is the author of several bestselling series, including Animorphs, as well as The Buffalo Storm, a picture book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Home of the Brave is Katherine Applegate's first stand-alone novel. In Kek's story, I hope readers will see the neighbor child with a strange accent, the new kid in class from some faraway land, the child in odd clothes who doesn't belong, she says. I hope they see themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ms. Applegate lives with her family in North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50264331845905,"sku":"CIN0312367651A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50330218299665,"sku":"CIN0312367651VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52102941737233,"sku":"CIN0312367651G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312367651.jpg?v=1750739238","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/home-of-the-brave-book-katherine-applegate-9780312367657","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}