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Applegate, Katherine

Home of the brave / Katherine Applegate. - First Square Fish edition. - 267 pages ; 20 cm

Includes author questions and reader's guide. Reprint. Originally published: New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2007.

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

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ISBN: 9780312535636 0312535635

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Immigrants--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction
Schools--Juvenile fiction
Cows--Juvenile fiction
Hope--Juvenile fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Minneapolis (Minn.)--Juvenile fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Young adult fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.5.A67 / Ho 2008

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]