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A review by nahnisbookz
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
5.0
A must-read. This book, told in verse, will squeeze your heart, making you laugh on one page and cry on another. Katherine Applegate has a way of making a mundane scene into something sacred. You'll be reading along, when all of a sudden her words are so affective that you are just knocked out with their poetry and emotion.
The main character is Kek, a boy who arrives in Minnesota from the Sudan. He is very sincere and kind but struggles to adjust to life in a new country. He hopes that his mother is still alive, although everyone tells him not to. He lives with his cousin and aunt, the only members of his family who are not dead or missing.
Because it's in verse, there is a lot of white space in the page. It's not long and the vocabulary is not difficult. Perhaps because of this, the impact is powerful.
The main character is Kek, a boy who arrives in Minnesota from the Sudan. He is very sincere and kind but struggles to adjust to life in a new country. He hopes that his mother is still alive, although everyone tells him not to. He lives with his cousin and aunt, the only members of his family who are not dead or missing.
Because it's in verse, there is a lot of white space in the page. It's not long and the vocabulary is not difficult. Perhaps because of this, the impact is powerful.