Applegate, Katherine.

Home of the brave / Katherine Applegate. - 1st Square Fish ed. - New York : Square Fish : Feiwel And Friends, 2009, c2007. - 267 p. ; 20 cm.

Wilson's Children, October 2010 Wilson's Junior High School, November 2008 School Library Journal starred, October 2007 Publisher's Weekly, August 2007 Booklist, July 2007 Horn Book, April 2008 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2008 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2007 Kirkus Review, August 2007 Kliatt, November 2007

Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth-grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.

4.0. 5-8 Follett Library Resources.



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Immigrants--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
School stories.
Cattle--Fiction.
Hope--Fiction.


Minneapolis (Minn.)--Fiction.

PZ7.A6485 / Hom 2009

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