Home of the Brave
Narrator: Dominic Hoffman
Imprint: Listening Library
Grades: Grades 4-7
Ages: 9-12 years
Release Date: December 18, 2007
2 Hours and 47 Minutes
List Price: $25.50
ISBN: 9780739362174
Categories:
Juvenile Fiction - People & Places - United States - African American & Black, Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - New Experience, Juvenile Fiction - Family - General (See Also Headings Under Social Themes)
Kek comes from Africa. In America, he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He’s never walked on ice, and he falls. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter–cold and unkind.
In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she’s missing. Kek is on his own. Slowly, he makes friends: a girl who is in foster care, an old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means “family” in his native language. As Kek awaits word of his mother’s fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his new friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country.
In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she’s missing. Kek is on his own. Slowly, he makes friends: a girl who is in foster care, an old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means “family” in his native language. As Kek awaits word of his mother’s fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his new friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country.
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