Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate

Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate

Kek comes from Africa.

In 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.

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.

Bestselling author Katherine Applegate presents a beautifully wrought novel about an immigrant's journey from hardship to hope.

Katherine Applegate is the author of several bestselling series, including Animorphs, as well as The Buffalo Storm, a picture book.

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.

Ms. Applegate lives with her family in North Carolina.

Applegate, Katherine: - After Katherine Applegate graduated from college, she spent time waiting tables, typing (badly), watering plants, wandering randomly from one place to the next with her boyfriend, and just generally wasting her time. When she grew sufficiently tired of performing brain-dead minimum-wage work, she decided it was time to become a famous writer. Anyway, a writer. Writing proved to be an ideal career choice, as it involved neither physical exertion nor uncomfortable clothing, and required no social skills.

Ms. Applegate has written more than one hundred books under her own name and a variety of pseudonyms. She has no children, is active in no organizations, and has never been invited to address a joint session of Congress. She does, however, have an evil, foot-biting cat named Dick, and she still enjoys wandering randomly from one place to the next with her boyfriend.

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ISBN 13	9780312367657
ISBN 10	0312367651
Title	Home of the Brave
Author	Katherine Applegate
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Feiwel And Friends
Year published	2007-08-21
Number of pages	256
Prizes	Winner of Golden Kite (Fiction) 2007, Winner of Children's Book Committee Award (Fiction) 2008, Runner-up for Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (Grades 3-5) 2010, Commended for Nene Award 2010, Short-listed for Bluebonnet Awards 2011, Short-listed for Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award 2010, Short-listed for Young Hoosier Book Award (Middle Grades) 2010, Short-listed for Golden Sower Award (Young Adult) 2011, Short-listed for Nutmeg Book Award (Teen) 2011, Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2009
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