Navigating his way around this strange new world seems often overwhelming to a 12 year old. There he struggles to adjust, not just from the shock of bitter cold, but everything in this Western world: English -“the tangled sounds” they tried to teach him at the refugee camp, modern conveniences like washing machines, toilets, even electricity, a new school and making friends. Kek, a refugee from Sudan, arrives in the US in the dead of winter, to none other than Minnesota. This short novel, written in free verse, had me in it’s grip from the very first page. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.I just finished reading Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate.
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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