A review by nerfherder86
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate

3.0

Sweet look at what it's like to be a stranger in a strange land: Kek is a new immigrant from Africa, a refugee from a war that took the lives of his brother and father and separated him from his mother. Now he's in the U.S., staying in the home of his aunt and cousin, trying to learn English and figure out how to do everyday things in America that he has never encountered before, like washing machines, and escalators. He does find a cow, however, on a lonely little farm, and that is very familiar to him. Caring for the cow helps him cope. Has moments of humor, "fish out of water" type incidents like what he does with the washing machine!