Home of the Brave by Applegate, Katherine
Home of the Brave by Applegate, Katherine
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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.
Author: Katherine Applegate
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 12/23/2008
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780312535636
Audience: Ages 9-12
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.5
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 118014 / Home of the Brave
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.