After Katherine Applegate graduated from college, she spent time waiting tables, typing (badly), watering plants, wandering randomly from one place to the next with her boyfriend, and just generally wasting her time. When she grew sufficiently tired of performing brain-dead minimum-wage work, she decided it was time to become a famous writer. Anyway, a writer. Writing proved to be an ideal career choice, as it involved neither physical exertion nor uncomfortable clothing, and required no social skills. Ms. Applegate has written more than one hundred books under her own name and a variety of pseudonyms. She has no children, is active in no organizations, and has never... Read full bio
Summer can't wait to get back to the Florida Keys. She, Marquez, and Diana have already decided to get an apartment so they can spend the whole summer...
...National Book Festival has released a preliminary -- and long -- list of authors who will be participating: Katherine Applegate, Avi, Natalie Babbitt, Bob Balaban, Fergus Bordewich, Natalie Pope Boyce, Christopher Bram, Giannina Braschi, Peter...
...Check out these great new novels for kids ages 8-12: • Katherine Applegate is the author of a couple of children's series, "Roscoe Riley Rules" and the best-selling "Animorphs." But Ms. Applegate's newest book is something completely different. Titled...
...These titles are all contenders for the coveted Newbery Medal, says Drucker. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate: "This story is told by Ivan, a captive silverback lowland gorilla, and is partially based on a true story," says Drucker, who...
...Scripps Howard News Service Check out these great new novels for young people: Gorilla stars in 'Ivan' Katherine Applegate is the author of a couple of children's series, "Roscoe Riley Rules" and the best-selling "Animorphs." But Applegate's newest book...
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...View full size"The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate (Courtesy photo) View full size"Ray of Hope" by Vanessa Davis Griggs (Courtesy photo) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Two books filled with messages of hope jumped to the top of my...
...on? How is it possible when you cant mend your broken heart? The One And Only Ivan Author: Katherine Applegate Publisher: Harper, 299 pages IVAN is a silverback gorilla who resides at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, along with his best friends,...
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...more of their ilk. This meeting will feature exercises inspired by selections from "Home of the Brave" by Katherine Applegate, No advance registration is required. Refreshments will be served. Children’s Story Hour on Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 10:30 a.m....
...in Haiti to find her parents missing and all of America in panicked crisis; Eve and Adam by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant, in which a teenage girl discovers unusual things about herself that may be related to her mother’s work at Spiker...
...Otto misses his warm book. Will Otto ever find the perfect home? The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. He has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the...
...Stitches” and “One Cool Friend,” winner of the Caldecott and National Book Award Gordon Korman, author of “Showoff” Katherine Applegate, author of “The One and Only Ivan” Augusta Scattergood, author of “Glory Be” Article Extras Updated:...
...Here are some of the more promising candidates for the 2013 Newbery Medal. Some of the starred review information may quickly become outdated–if it isn’t already. THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN by Katherine Applegate (three stars) is a novel in prose...
...was released by Pearson Education in November of 2011. She also ghosted a novel called The Mutation for Katherine Applegate's bestselling young adult s/f series "Animorphs" (Scholastic).A prizewinning screenwriter, her feature comedy “Mob Dot Com,”...