Book description
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…
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1 author picked Home of the Brave as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love the book’s gentle tone and message that action can create healing. My husband and I have been honored to host many amazing Young African Leaders in the last few years–some with stories of survival and all with inspiring projects to help their countries and the world.
So, I connect personally with the book's premise of a refugee boy’s resettlement in Minneapolis and coming to terms with his mother’s disappearance during the war in Somalia. Knowing our “African family” makes it easy to believe Kek’s story, written in clear verse, about the fallout of that war. And who can’t…
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