Full of wide-eyed amazement and unalloyed enthusiasm for all things American, Kek is a generic bordering on insulting stereotype. When the owner plans to sell the cow, Kek becomes despondent. Later he returns with Hannah, a friendly foster child, and talks the cow's owner into hiring him to look after it. Arriving in winter, Kek spots a cow that reminds him of his father's herd, a familiar sight in an alien world. Reading Olympics Booklist Middle School 2020-2020īack to Top Reading Measurement Programs:įrom the author of the Animorphs series comes this earnest novel in verse about an orphaned Sudanese war refugee with a passion for cows, who has resettled in Minnesota with relatives. Young Hoosier Book Award Middle Grade 2009-2010 William Allen White Children's Book Award Grades 3-5 2009-2010 Voice of Youth Award Grade 7 up 2009-2010 Rhode Island Teen Book Award Middle School 2009-2009 Rhode Island Children's Book Award None 2009-2009 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award None 2010-2010 Reading Olympics Booklist Middle School 2016-2016 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Grades 6-8 2009-2010 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Grades 3-5 2009-2010 Massachusetts Children's Book Award Grades 4-6 2010-2011 Garden State Teen Book Award Fiction Grades 6-8 2010-2010 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award, Division I, 2010īack to Top State & Provincial Reading List :ĭorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award None 2008-2009 Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature, None, 2008 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers, 2007, NoneĬuffies: Children's Booksellers Choose Their Favorite (and not-so-favorite) Books of the Year, Most Memorable Character in a Lead Role, 2007Ĭybils Awards, Middle Grade Fiction, 2007 Sense of Place, Sense of Self, 2009, Middle School School Library Journal Book Review Stars, 2007, None School Library Journal Best Books, 2007, None

Poetry Essentials: Selected Books for Children and Teens, 2015, Novels in Verse Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2008, Social Interactions and Relationship Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog, Ninth Edition Supplement 2008, 2008, None Great Middle School Reads, 2013, Facing the Challenge Subjects Best Books State and Provincial Reading List Awards, Honors & Prizes Reading Measurement Programs Reviews Publication Details Subjects :ġ2 YA Novels That Will Make You See the World Differently, 2016, Young Adult Graphic Novelīest Children's Books of the Year, 2008, Age (12 and up)

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