Themes: Family Separation: On Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or FriendĬharacter’s New Arrival/New American Status: Refugee Click here for details about how we define our titles. Bestselling author Katherine Applegate presents a beautifully wrought novel about an immigrant’s journey from hardship to hope.Ĭommunity Represented: Sudanese/Sudanese American 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. 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 his native language. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she’s missing. Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate is the story of an African boy, Kek, who loses his father and a brother and flees, leaving his mother to secure his. In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter–cold and unkind. In America, he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. After witnessing the murders of his father and brother, then getting separated from his mother in an African camp, Kek alone believes that his mother has somehow survived.
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