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Author:

Applegate, Katherine.

Title:

Home of the brave / Katherine Applegate.

Edition:

1st Square Fish ed.

Publisher:

Square Fish,

Copyright Date:

2009, c2007

Description:

267 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Immigrants--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Cows--Fiction.
Hope--Fiction.
Minneapolis (Minn.)--Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Immigrants--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
School stories
Cattle--Fiction.
Hope--Fiction.
Minneapolis (Minn.)--Fiction.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2007. Includes reading group guide. "Go fish--look inside for an interview with Katherine Applegate"--P. [4] of cover.

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.

ISBN:

0312535635
9780312535636 (pbk.)

LCCN:

bl2008033453

Locations:

DXPB423 -- Dr. Grace O. Doane Alden Public Library (Alden)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

DTPD413 -- Garner Public Library (Garner)

POSX851 -- Ballard Community High School (Huxley)

EZPE755 -- Le Mars Public Library (Le Mars)

NSPC983 -- Manly Public Library (Manly)

AYPB546 -- Richland Public Library (Richland)

TXPC862 -- Traer Public Library (Traer)