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Home of the Brave is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children\'s Book of the Year..
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.
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.
Kek is on his own.
But only he and his mother have survived, and now she\'s missing.
In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother.
He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter - cold and unkind.
He\'s never walked on ice, and he falls.
In America he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting.
Kek comes from Africa.
Bestselling author Katherine Applegate presents Home of the Brave , a beautifully wrought middle grade novel about an immigrant\'s journey from hardship to hope.
Applegate) delivers her first stand-alone literary novel: a beautifully wrought story about an African immigrant to America, who makes a journey from hardship to hope.
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