{"product_id":"home-of-the-brave-paperback","title":"Home of the Brave - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBestselling author Katherine Applegate presents \u003ci\u003eHome of the Brave\u003c\/i\u003e, a beautifully wrought middle grade novel about an immigrant's journey from hardship to hope. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKek comes from Africa. In America he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He's never walked on ice, and he falls. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter - cold and unkind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she's missing. Kek is on his own. Slowly, he makes friends: a girl who is in foster care; an old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means \"family\" in Kek's native language. As Kek awaits word of his mother's fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his new friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHome of the Brave\u003c\/i\u003e is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKek comes from Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn America, he sees the snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He's never walked on ice, and he falls. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter--cold and unkind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she's missing. Kek is on his own. 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bestselling author Katherine Applegate presents a beautifully wrought novel about an immigrant's journey from hardship to hope. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherine Applegate is the author of several bestselling series, including Animorphs, as well as \"The Buffalo Storm, \"a picture book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Home of the Brave \"is Katherine Applegate's first stand-alone novel. \"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. \"I hope they see themselves.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ms. Applegate lives with her family in North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50591720702175,"sku":"9780312535636","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0b66-6_YmK9780312535636.webp?v=1784699477","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/home-of-the-brave-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}