Bluebonnet Award
2011 · Children's · Nominee
About This Book
Bestselling author Katherine Applegate presents Home of the Brave, a beautifully wrought middle grade novel about an immigrant's journey from hardship to hope.
Kek 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.
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; 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.
Home of the Brave is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Kek 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.
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; 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.
Home of the Brave is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Awards
Golden Sower Award
2011 · Young Adult · Nominee
Nutmeg Book Award
2011 · Teen · Nominee
Massachusetts Children's Book Award
2010 · Children's Book · Nominee
Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
2010 · Grades 3-5 · Second Place
Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
2010 · Grades 6-8 · Nominee
Nene Award
2010 · Children's Fiction · Recommended
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award
2010 · Grades 4-8 · Nominee
William Allen White Childens Book Award
2010 · Grades 3-5 · Nominee
Young Hoosier Book Award
2010 · Middle Grades · Nominee
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
2009 · Children's · Nominee
Rhode Island Children's Book Award
2009 · Grades 3-6 · Nominee
Rhode Island Teen Book Award
2009 · Ages 12 & Up · Nominee
Children's Book Committee Award
2008 · Fiction · Winner
Golden Kite
2007 · Fiction · Winner
