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Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
5.0
My younger son is in the fifth grade (the same age as Kek, the protagonist of the book) and his entire school (including faculty and interested parents) is reading this book. I read along with him and was really moved by this beautifully written story of a Sudanese boy who resettles in the United States after losing his father and brother to the civil war.
Ms. Applegate does a wonderful job of describing the horrors of what has happened to Kek without being gratuitous and while remaining sensitive to her readers. The language in the book is absolutely beautiful and gives a sense of what Kek's native tongue might sound like. I would recommend this book to people of any age, to become more aware of the pain of dislocation suffered by refugees and to put a human face on the issue of immigration.
Ms. Applegate does a wonderful job of describing the horrors of what has happened to Kek without being gratuitous and while remaining sensitive to her readers. The language in the book is absolutely beautiful and gives a sense of what Kek's native tongue might sound like. I would recommend this book to people of any age, to become more aware of the pain of dislocation suffered by refugees and to put a human face on the issue of immigration.