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Original Title:	Home of the Brave
ISBN:	0312367651 (ISBN13: 9780312367657)
Edition Language:	English URL http://us.macmillan.com/homeofthebrave-1/KatherineApplegate
Characters:	Kek
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Josette Frank Award (2008), SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Fiction (2008), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2009), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2009), Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature Nominee (2008) Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2010)

Home of the Brave

Katherine Applegate

Hardcover | Pages: 249 pages

Rating: 4.26 | 9171 Users | 1384 Reviews

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Title	:	Home of the Brave
Author	:	Katherine Applegate
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 249 pages
Published	:	August 21st 2007 by Feiwel & Friends
Categories	:	Poetry. Young Adult. Realistic Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade. Fiction

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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.

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Katherine Applegate puts words together creating beautiful images. Dave is a an American helping Kek, a Sudanese refugee, settle in Minnesota with his cousin and aunt. Kek thinks Dave's partial use of Dinka and English sounds like "...a song always out of tune, / missing notes / To help him, / I try some English / but my mouth just wants to chew the words / and spit them on the ground." She captures what it is like to be new to a country. To not understand the language. To know this new place is



Wow--if you want a book that reaches in and GRABS your heart, this is the one! The author writes the story in verse, kind of like a series of poems, so it's fast to read, but every word has so much weight and meaning. I imagine there will be a lot of refugees from Haiti coming soon, so it's very relevent. It is one of the 2010-2011 Bluebonnets too.

I'm not a fan of books in verse in general and that was the first problem. The greater problem was my concern with the portrayal of a young Sudanese refugee as naive to the modern world in the extreme.I find it hard to believe a young man having spent time in refugee camps has never heard of jeans and calls television a "TV machine." At best it was an unsuccessful attempt at telling the story in broken English and at worst poorly researched and first-world, white bias on Katherine Applegate's

As I go to write this review, I'm reminded of Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper, which I reviewed pretty negatively because I was distracted by its literary shortcomings as I was reading it. A lot of other goodreads reviewers told me I completely missed the point of Out of My Mind. They told me that it was such an important book for throwing light on a kind of life most kids don't know much about it. How could I criticize it so harshly?! Well, that's kind of how I feel about this book. I've read

This is the story of a young Sudanese boy, one of the "Lost Boys," who comes to the U.S. to live with his aunt and cousin and tries to adjust to life in a new land. Things like snow and American food are new, he barely knows the language, and, above all, he's anxious that they find his mother in a refugee camp and send her to be with him.I think anyone reading this book is bound to come away with a new appreciation for the courage it takes to emigrate to a new place, especially after

I never thought I would read a novel in verse. Somehow the concept made me think of William Wordsworth or Burt Bacharach. Or Dr. Seuss. And to be honest, I didn't want to read anything written by those people for 200 pages or more.But last year someone gave me Because I am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas. I ignored it for a while, let it sit on the shelf. But let me tell you, when I finally opened it, I couldn't put it down. I was blown away.So this year I was actually excited when I got my hands on