Home of the Brave Applegate KatherinePaperback
Home of the Brave Applegate KatherinePaperback Bestselling author Katherine Applegate presents Home of the Brave, a beautifully wrought middle grade novel about an immigrant's journey from hardship…
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Home of the Brave Applegate KatherinePaperback
Bestselling author Katherine Applegate presents Home of the Brave, a beautifully wrought middle grade novel about an immigrant's journey from hardship to hope.Kek comes from Africa. He's never walked on ice, and he falls. In America he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting.
But only he and his mother have survived, and now she's missing. 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. 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.Home of the