home of the brave by katherine applegate

Kek will be instantly recognizable to immigrants, but he is also well worth meeting by readers living in homogeneous communities.”- School Library Journal, starred review Kek is both a representative of all immigrants and a character in his own right. “American culture, the Minnesota climate, and personal identity are examined in this moving first-person novel written in free verse. Applegate lives with her family in North Carolina. In Keks 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 doesnt belong,” she says. Home of the Brave is Katherine Applegates first stand-alone novel. Katherine Applegate is the author of several bestselling series, including Animorphs, as well as The Buffalo Storm, a picture book. As Kek awaits word of his mothers fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his few friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country.īestselling author Katherine Applegate presents a beautifully wrought novel about an immigrants journey from hardship to hope. Slowly, he makes friends: a girl who is in foster care, and old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means family” in his native language.

But only he and his mother have survived, and now shes missing. In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother.

He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the wintercold and unkind. In America, he sees the snow for the first time, and feels its sting.

Home of the brave by katherine applegate