Applegate, Katherine.

Home of the brave / Katherine Applegate. - 249 pages ; 22 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

9780312367657 (hc.) 0312367651 (hc.) 9780312535636

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Immigrants--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.
Cows--Juvenile fiction.
Hope--Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Cows--Fiction.
Hope--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
School stories.
Cattle--Fiction.
Hope--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.


Minneapolis (Minn.)--Juvenile fiction.
Minneapolis (Minn.)--Fiction.
Minnesota--Fiction.

PZ7.A6485 / Hom 2007

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