summary of home of the brave by katherine applegate

Home of the Brave won the SCBWI 2008 Golden Kite Award for Best Fiction, the Bank Street 2008 Josette Frank Award, and is a Judy Lopez Memorial Award honor book. Upon returning to writing, she wrote a picture book, Buffalo Storm, a middle reader novel, Home of the Brave, and an early chapters series, Roscoe Riley Rules, with HarperCollins. Following the end of Remnants, Applegate took three years off. In 2003, they adopted a daughter, Julia, from China.

In 1997, she and her husband, Michael Grant, her co-author on many projects, including Animorphs and Everworld, had their first child, who has since come out as a transgender woman. She got her start as a ghostwriter for Sweet Valley Twins. After living in Pelago, Italy for a year, she moved back to Irvine, California. Since then, she has lived in Texas, Florida, California, Illinois, and North Carolina. School Library Journal Best Books, 2007.Applegate was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Language eng 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 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 Theme

Minneapolis (Minn.) - Juvenile fiction.

Label Home of the brave Title Home of the brave Statement of responsibility Katherine Applegate Creator

Summary of home of the brave by katherine applegate