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Home of the Brave

by Katherine Applegate

Cover of Home of the Brave
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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.

Juvenile fictionFictionImmigrantsSchoolsCowsAfrican AmericansHopeTeenage boysFriendshipChildren's fictionSchools, fictionAfrican americans, fiction