However, I wasn’t sure how great the writing would be in HOME OF THE BRAVE. I loved these books when I was younger, and even today, though I realize they’re far from being great literature, I still enjoy rereading my favorites. Katherine Applegate is also known as KA Applegate, creator of the Animorphs series (and writer of many of them, though quite a few were ghostwritten). 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.* Home of the Brave is a 2007 Cybils Middle Grade Fiction nomine* When the flying boatreturns to Earth at last, I open my eyesand gaze out the round window.What is all the white? I whisper.Where is all the world? Applegate lives with her family in North Carolina. '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.

'Home of the Brave 'is Katherine Applegate's 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 mother's 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 immigrant's 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 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.

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

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