Home of the Brave

2014-12-23
Home of the Brave

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  • Author: Katherine Applegate
  • Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
  • ISBN: 1466887834
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 257

Bestselling author Katherine Applegate presents Home of the Brave, a beautifully wrought middle grade novel about an immigrant's journey from hardship to hope. 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 Kek's 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. Home of the Brave is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Home of the Brave

2002-04-30
Home of the Brave

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  • Author: Allen Say
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ISBN: 054734595X
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 37

In dreamlike sequences, a man symbolically confronts the trauma of his family’s incarceration in the Japanese internment camps during World War II. This infamous event is made emotionally clear through his meeting a group of children all with strange name tags pinned to their coats. The man feels the helplessness of the children. Finally, desperately he releases the name tags like birds into the air to find their way home with the hope for a time when Americans will be seen as one people—not judged, mistrusted, or segregated because of their individual heritage. Sixty years after thousands of Japanese Americans were unjustly imprisoned, the cogent prose and haunting paintings of renowned author and illustrator Allen Say remind readers of a dark chapter in America’s history.

The Brave

2020-06-30
The Brave

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  • Author: James Bird
  • Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
  • ISBN: 1250247748
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 259

Perfect for fans of Rain Reign, this middle-grade novel The Brave is about a boy with an undiagnosed anxiety issue and his move to a reservation to live with his biological mother. Collin can't help himself—he has a mental health condition that finds him counting every letter spoken to him. It's a quirk that makes him a prime target for bullies, and frustrates the adults around him, including his father. When Collin asked to leave yet another school, his dad decides to send him to live in Minnesota with the mother he's never met. She is Ojibwe, and lives on a reservation. Collin arrives in Duluth with his loyal dog, Seven, and quickly finds his mom and his new home to be warm, welcoming, and accepting of his disability. Collin’s quirk is matched by that of his neighbor, Orenda, a girl who lives mostly in her treehouse and believes she is turning into a butterfly. With Orenda’s help, Collin works hard to learn the best ways to manage his anxiety disorder. His real test comes when he must step up for his new friend and trust his new family.

Home of the Brave

2007-05-29
Home of the Brave

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  • Author: Caspar Weinberger
  • Publisher: Forge Books
  • ISBN: 1429936274
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272

In Home of the Brave, former Secreatary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger brings us a chronicle of heroism in the War on Terror. They are nineteen of the most highly decorated soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines in the United States military, and yet most Americans don't even know their names. In this riveting, intimate account, former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Wynton C. Hall tell stories of jaw-dropping heroism and hope in Afghanistan and Iraq. Home of the Brave takes readers beyond the bullets and battles and into the hearts and minds of the men and women who are fighting terrorists overseas so that America doesn't have to fight them at home. These are the powerful, true-life stories of the hopes, fears, and triumphs these men and women experienced fighting the War on Terror. But more than that, these are the stories of soldiers who risked everything to save lives and defend freedom. Including: *Lieutenant Colonel Mark Mitchell, the Green Beret leader whose 15-man Special Forces team took 500 Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners, and posthumously repatriated the body of the first American to die in combat in the War on Terror, CIA agent Johnny "Mike" Spann. *Army National Guard Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester, the first woman ever to be awarded the Silver Star for combat, whose sharp-shooting and bravery played an enormous role in fighting off over fifty Iraqi insurgents while her ten-person squad protected a convoy of supplies on the way to fellow soldiers. *Sergeant Rafael Peralta, a Mexican immigrant, enlisted in the Marines the same day he received his green card. Wounded from enemy fire, Peralta used his body to smother the blast of an enemy grenade and gave his life so that his marine brothers could live. These real-life heroes remind us of American history's most enduring lesson: Ours would not be the land of the free if it were not also the home of the brave. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Home of the Brave

1949
Home of the Brave

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  • Author: Arthur Laurents
  • Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9780822205296
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 78

THE STORY: A group of American soldiers volunteer for a dangerous mission to a Japanese-occupied island. One soldier develops a complex because he convinces himself that he has failed in his duty to a dying buddy. He imagines that being a Jew and t

Sheila Rae, the Brave

2021-08-31
Sheila Rae, the Brave

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  • Author: Kevin Henkes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • ISBN: 0063083957
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 32

Sheila Rae, the Brave is a warm, humorous, and loving story of sibling sympathy and support. Just because Sheila Rae is older, she doesn't always know better! This classic picture book about overcoming fear is written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes, the nationally bestselling and celebrated creator of Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Owen, and Kitten's First Full Moon. "I am very brave," Sheila Rae said, patting herself on the back. She wasn't afraid of anything—not thunder, not lightning, not the big black dog at the end of the block. And when she wanted to walk home a new way and Louise wouldn't, she called her sister a scaredy-cat and set out alone. But all the bravado in the world failed to help when Sheila Rae found herself lost. Luckily, her sister was not far behind. "Children will love it."—School Library Journal

Home of the Braves

2002-10-30
Home of the Braves

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  • Author: David Klass
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 0374399638
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 326

Eighteen-year-old Joe, captain of the soccer team, is dismayed when a hotshot player shows up from Brazil and threatens to take over both the team and the girl whom Joe hopes to date.

Home of the Brave

2020-05-05
Home of the Brave

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  • Author: The Deplorable Choir
  • Publisher: Bombardier Books
  • ISBN: 9781642935509
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 160

A MAGA mom’s go-to guide straight from The Deplorable Choir, Home of the Brave is a book filled with inspiration, encouragement, activities, and ideas to rev up your patriotic spirit. Three MAGA moms who love God, family, and country found the boldness and courage to stand up for their beliefs, share their patriotism, and practice kindness every day. What started with one song posted online became a movement to show others that every voice matters and anyone can make a difference. The Deplorable Choir—Cjaye, Lyndsey, and Val—wrote Home of the Brave: A MAGA Mom’s Guide to Defending God, Family, and Country to encourage other patriotic moms to embrace their spirit, find their voice, and raise their families as proud Americans. From home to community to country, Home of the Brave is the inspiration MAGA moms have been searching for to help them create and live their American dream.

The Brave Learner

2019-02-05
The Brave Learner

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  • Author: Julie Bogart
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 0525505008
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

Publishers Weekly bestseller · A joyful and accessible homeschool guide to making learning a part of everyday life Parents who are deeply invested in their children's education can be hard on themselves and their kids. When exhausted parents are living the day-to-day grind, it can seem impossible to muster enough energy to make learning fun or interesting. How do parents nurture a love of learning amid childhood chaos, parental self-doubt, the flu, and state academic standards? In this book, Julie Bogart distills decades of experience--homeschooling her five now grown children, developing curricula, and training homeschooling families around the world--to show parents how to make education an exciting, even enchanting, experience for their kids, whether they're in elementary or high school. Enchantment is about ease, not striving. Bogart shows parents how to make room for surprise, mystery, risk, and adventure in their family's routine, so they can create an environment that naturally moves learning forward. If a child wants to pick up a new hobby or explore a subject area that the parent knows little about, it's easy to simply say "no" to end the discussion and the parental discomfort, while dousing their child's curious spark. Bogart gently invites parents to model brave learning for their kids so they, too, can approach life with curiosity, joy, and the courage to take learning risks.

Hour of the Bees

2016-03-08
Hour of the Bees

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  • Author: Lindsay Eagar
  • Publisher: Candlewick Press
  • ISBN: 0763687359
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 367

What does it mean to be fully alive? Magic blends with reality in a stunning coming-of-age novel about a girl, a grandfather, wanderlust, and reclaiming your roots. Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them. . . . While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina — Carol — is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she’s never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down, Carol finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by the crazy stories he tells her about a healing tree, a green-glass lake, and the bees that will bring back the rain and end a hundred years of drought. As the thin line between magic and reality starts to blur, Carol must decide for herself what is possible — and what it means to be true to her roots. Readers who dream that there’s something more out there will be enchanted by this captivating novel of family, renewal, and discovering the wonder of the world.