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Home of the brave / Katherine Applegate.

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780312535636
  • ISBN: 0312535635
  • ISBN: 9781439594414
  • ISBN: 1439594414
  • ISBN: 9781613834787
  • ISBN: 1613834780
  • ISBN: 9780312367657
  • ISBN: 0312367651
  • Physical Description: 268 pages ; 19 cm
  • Edition: 1st Square Fish edition.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Square Fish, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes author interview and reader's guide.
Target Audience Note:
Target Age Group: 10 to 14. Ingram.
NP Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.5 3 118014.
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 3.5 3 SD Quiz 118014 English fiction.
Reading Counts RC 6-8 4.3 8 Quiz: 42088 Guided reading level: W.
Awards Note:
Golden Kite Award Winner for Fiction, 2007
SLJ Best Book of the Year, 2007
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2008.
Subject: Teenage boys > Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Schools > Juvenile fiction.
Cows > Juvenile fiction.
Hope > Juvenile fiction.
Minneapolis (Minn.) > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Novels in verse.
Fiction.

Available copies

  • 151 of 157 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 3 of 3 copies available at Iredell County Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 157 total copies.
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Statesville Main Library J APPLEGATE (Text) 33114015598873 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Statesville Main Library J APPLEGATE (Text) 33114017886862 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Troutman Branch Library J APPLEGATE (Text) 33114017886904 Juvenile Fiction Available -