Home of the Brave - Hardcover

Applegate, Katherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312367651 ISBN 13: 9780312367657

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends, 2007

Synopsis

Kek comes from Africa. In America he sees 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; an old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means "family" in Kek's native language. As Kek awaits word of his mother's fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his new 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.

Home of the Brave is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

When the flying boat
returns to Earth at last,
I open my eyes
and gaze out the round window.
What is all the white? I whisper.
Where is all the world?

About the Author:

Katherine Applegate is the author of several best-selling young adult series, including Animorphs and Roscoe Riley Rules. Home of the Brave, her first standalone novel, received the SCBWI 2008 Golden Kite Award for Best Fiction and the Bank Street 2008 Josette Frank Award. "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 will see themselves." She lives with her family in Irvine, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312367651
• ISBN 13: 9780312367657
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256