Home of the Brave |  | Author: Katherine Applegate
Publisher: Square Fish
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 95349
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 272
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0312535635
EAN: 9780312535636
ASIN: 0312535635
Publication Date: December 23, 2008
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Product Description
A man I helped to settle here
taught me a saying from Africa.
Iâll bet you would like it:
A cow is God with a wet nose.
Kek comes from Africa where he lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived. Now sheâs missing, and Kek has been sent to a new home. In America, he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winterâcold and unkind. But slowly he makes friends: a girl in foster care, an old woman with a rundown farm, and a sweet, sad cow that reminds Kek of home. As he waits for word of his motherâs fate, Kek weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his new friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country.
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A pleasure for adults as well as children November 22, 2009
Cathe Olson (In the kitchen)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a wonderful and touching book about a boy Kek who comes from Africa to winter in Minnesota because his father and brother have been killed and his mother is missing. He tries to adjust to life in the US where there is such abundance of everything while knowing back in Africa people are dying and starving. It's beautifully written and I cried at the end. It's one of those juvenile novels that is just a pleasure for adults as well. I highly recommend this book.
Couldn't put it down.. September 26, 2009
Amy
I am a fourth grade teacher who reads a lot of children's literature. This will one will be memorable. I picked it up last night and couldn't put it down. After two hours of reading, I found myself on the last page with both happiness for having experienced such a beautifully written story, but more sadness because I had come to the end. Try it, you will not be disappointed.
Home of the Brave May 22, 2009
Susan Quigg (Pennsylvania)
Home of the Brave is a wonderful story of Kek, a Sudanese refugee, who is learning to live in America. He witnessed the murder of his father and brother. In his loneliness in his new life, he clings to the belief that he will be reunited with his mother. He arranges to work for an elderly woman who owns a cow, a connection to his past life in Sudan. This is a powerful story of courage and hope and Kek's impact on the people he meets in his new home.
Home of the Brave, book of the year January 19, 2009
Tina Nichols Coury (Oxnard, CA, USA)
The idea of these Sudanese immigrants being transplanted to a Minnesota town fascinated me. What I didn't expect was to read one of the best books of the year. Told by Kek, a young boy from Sudan, who saw the murders of most of his family, Kek is separated from his probably dead mother and his relief to be in Minnesota with his aunt and cousin. It was so easy to love upbeat Kek and his utter confusion of his new life in America.
From snow, escalators, jeans, language and cleaning the dishes in the washer. I laughed at his view of these ordinary things. But he also reminded me of how wealthy our country is compared to most of the world. His marveling at the apartment that his Aunt and cousin live in "That is a palace." Kek finds it easier to adjust to this life than his older war scared cousin, Ganwar. I got caught up in Kek as an optimist. Kek changed the life of others by just asking to help and being the cattle herder that he was. But the most incredible thing about this wonderful book is the language. Written in poetic verse, the words bathed me in description of place, time and emotion. I laughed and weeped and wanted more. READ THIS FABULOUS STORY!
Life Affirming Book August 23, 2008
Ahinahina (Axaias, Greece)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My daughter will be teaching 'Home of the Brave' to her 4th and 5th grade class this year. She recommended this book after she took a class on teaching this book. When I first looked at the reviews on Amazon, I was put off by the subject matter. Don't be. It is like a written tone poem. Katherine Applegate's use of language is delightful.
My favorite part of the book is: "You can have your dogs and cat,
your gerbils and hamsters
and sleek sparkling fish.
But you will have lived
just half a life
if you never love a cow."
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