Home of the Brave

by Applegate, Katherine

Cows/Steers/BullsJosette Frank Children's Book AwardSLJ Best BookVOYA Award/HonorGolden Kite Award/Honor BookHopeBlack PeopleEmigration/Immigration
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AR Book Level
3.5
AR Points
3
Word Count
21,702
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
118014 EN

About this book

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. He longs for his missing mother but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.

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