Home of the Brave

"Beautiful. Thank you for publishing this book. Thank Katherine Applegate for writing it." --Karen Hesse

"Moving . . . Kek is both a representative of all immigrants and a character in his own right." --School Library Journal, Starred Review

"Precise, highly accessible language evokes a wide range of emotions and simultaneously tells an initiation story. A memorable inside view of an outsider." --Publishers Weekly

"This beautiful story of hope and resilience . . . is an almost lyrical story." --Voice of Youth Advocates

"The boy's first-person narrative is immediately accessible. Like Hanna Jansen's Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You, the focus on one child gets behind those news images of streaming refugees far away." --Booklist

"The evocative spareness of the verse narrative will appeal to poetry lovers as well as reluctant readers and ESL students." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

". . . beautifully written in free verse . . . a thought-provoking book about a topic sure to evoke the empathy of readers." --KLIATT