Home of the brave - katherine applegate

The author of the bestselling Animorphs series (written under the name K.

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.

Bestselling author Katherine Applegate presents Home of the Brave , a beautifully wrought middle grade novel about an immigrants journey from hardship to hope.

Kek comes from Africa.

In America he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting.

Hes 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 shes 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 Keks native language.

As Kek awaits word of his mothers 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 Childrens Book of the Year.