Home of the Brave

1000-by-k anger barnböcker beginning-reader bookaday books-i-want default dragons harddisk holes i-own india kids livros-fpf most-favourite myth other-books own-it picture-book rory-gilmore-challenge set_1800s seuss w-y-authors-ni with-row

See more books preferred by boys and girls of age 8 to 9
More books from Katherine Applegate

Enjoyed by readers of age: 8 to 9

Read the most by: boys and girls

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. 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.

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

ISBN10: 0312535635	ISBN13: 9780312535636
Format: Paperback	Pages: 267
Publisher: Palgrave USA	GoodReads Rating: 4
Author: Katherine Applegate,

Home of the Brave

Enjoyed by readers of age: 8 to 9

Read the most by: boys and girls

Crafted with ❤ by TheReadBetterCompany