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Katherine Applegate was born in Michigan on July 19, 1956. She writes science fiction, young adult romances, and pop-up books. She is the author of the Making Waves, Making Out, and Roscoe Riley Rules series. She writes the Animorphs, Everworld, and Remnants series under the pen name K. A. Applegate. She also writes under the pen names of C. Archer, Catherine Kendall and Elizabeth Benning. She has received numerous awards including a Golden Duck Award (Eleanor Cameron Award for Middle Grades) for The Message in 1997, the SCBWI 2008 Golden Kite Award for Best Fiction and the Bank Street 2008 Josette Frank Award for Home of the Brave, and the 2013 Newbery Medal and the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Illinois) for The One and Only Ivan. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The One and Only Ivan… (more)
The One and Only Ivan 7,337 copies, 378 reviews
The Invasion 2,034 copies, 50 reviews
Crenshaw 1,654 copies, 72 reviews
Wishtree 1,532 copies, 50 reviews
The Visitor 1,408 copies, 18 reviews
The Encounter 1,307 copies, 13 reviews
The Message 1,222 copies, 15 reviews
Home of the Brave 1,086 copies, 53 reviews
The Predator 1,034 copies, 13 reviews
The Capture 1,011 copies, 12 reviews
The Stranger 952 copies, 8 reviews
The One and Only Bob 877 copies, 21 reviews
The Alien 840 copies, 9 reviews
The Secret 839 copies, 11 reviews
The Change 813 copies, 9 reviews
The Android 810 copies, 9 reviews
The Threat 780 copies, 8 reviews
The Forgotten 777 copies, 9 reviews
Search for Senna 773 copies, 21 reviews
The Reaction 772 copies, 9 reviews
The Pretender 770 copies, 8 reviews
The Andaliteʼs Gift 757 copies, 12 reviews
The Unknown 756 copies, 8 reviews
The Warning 750 copies, 9 reviews
The Hork-Bajir Chronicles 723 copies, 11 reviews
The Underground 716 copies, 8 reviews
The Solution 708 copies, 8 reviews
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The Andalite Chronicles 694 copies, 13 reviews
In The Time of Dinosaurs 672 copies, 8 reviews
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The Discovery 665 copies, 10 reviews
The Exposed 661 copies, 8 reviews
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The Extreme 650 copies, 5 reviews
The Attack 630 copies, 9 reviews
The Sickness 593 copies, 8 reviews
The Illusion 579 copies, 5 reviews
Eve and Adam 578 copies, 53 reviews
The Mutation 573 copies, 6 reviews
The Reunion 565 copies, 6 reviews
The Weakness 555 copies, 7 reviews
Endling #1: The Last 548 copies, 10 reviews
The Experiment 543 copies, 8 reviews
The Conspiracy 540 copies, 6 reviews
Land of Loss 536 copies, 3 reviews
The Separation 526 copies, 6 reviews
The Prophecy 508 copies, 7 reviews
Enter the Enchanted 502 copies, 5 reviews
The Proposal 498 copies, 6 reviews
Elfangor's Secret 489 copies, 7 reviews
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The Beginning 442 copies, 6 reviews
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Brave the Betrayal 364 copies, 5 reviews
The Other 363 copies, 6 reviews
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The Test 341 copies, 5 reviews
The Sacrifice 332 copies, 4 reviews
Understand the Unknown 324 copies, 1 review
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The Journey 322 copies, 7 reviews
Mystify the Magician 316 copies, 3 reviews
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Inside the Illusion 313 copies, 2 reviews
Entertain the End 311 copies, 4 reviews
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The Deception 308 copies, 4 reviews
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The Absolute 264 copies, 4 reviews
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Them 182 copies, 1 review
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Willodeen 179 copies, 7 reviews
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Nowhere Land 149 copies, 2 reviews
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The New You 81 copies, 1 review
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Falling in Like 33 copies
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House Party 21 copies
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Swept Away 18 copies
Reunion 18 copies
Family Rules 17 copies
Fireworks 17 copies
July's Promise 17 copies
Star Quality 16 copies
Perfect Match 16 copies
Ocean City 16 copies
August Magic 16 copies
Shipwrecked 16 copies
Baby Talk 16 copies
Forever 16 copies
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Heat Wave 14 copies
Tease 14 copies
Love Shack 14 copies
Thrill 12 copies
Dogtown 11 copies, 3 reviews
Sweet 11 copies
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Dying to Eat (Day by Day) 6 copies, 1 review
Midas Touch 4 copies
David 2 copies
Animorphs Complete Series 2 copies, 1 review
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Ever World 1 copy
Mutaatio 1 copy
Overwonnen 1 copy
White Fang 1 copy
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Katherine Applegate is the author of The One and Only Ivan, winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal. Her novel Crenshaw spent over twenty weeks on the New York Times children's bestseller list, and her first middle-grade stand-alone novel, the award-winning Home of the Brave, continues to be included on state reading lists, summer reading lists, and class reading lists.

Katherine has written three picture books: The Buffalo Storm; The Remarkable True Story of Ivan, the Shopping Mall Gorilla (often used as a companion book to The One and Only Ivan for younger readers); and Sometimes You Fly (publishing in spring, 2018). For beginning readers, Katherine wrote Roscoe Riley Rules, a seven-book series.

With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co-wrote Animorphs, a long-running series that has sold over 35 million books worldwide.

Katherine lives in Marin County, California, with her family and assorted pets.
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