K. A. Applegate
Author of The One and Only Ivan
About the Author
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. show more 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) show less
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Series
Works by K. A. Applegate
Tan Lines: Sand, Surf, and Secrets; Rays, Romance, and Rivalry; Beaches, Boys, and Betrayal (Summer) (2008) 119 copies
Disney's Christmas With All the Trimmings: Original Stories and Crafts from Mickey Mouse and Friends (1994) 19 copies
Newbery Award Favorite Library 8 Book Box Set : Charlotte's Web, The One and Only Ivan, Ella Enchanted, Dragonwings (2020) — Contributor — 13 copies
Ivan & Friends Paperback 2-Book Box Set: The One and Only Ivan, The One and Only Bob (Ivan and Friends) (2022) 6 copies
Roscoe Riley Rules 4 Books in 1!: Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs; Never Swipe a Bully's Bear; Don't Swap Your… (2016) 4 copies
Animorphs: The Weakness 3 copies
Endling - Die neue Zeit: Spannende Fantasy für Mädchen und Jungen ab 11 (Die Endling-Trilogie, Band 3) (2021) 2 copies
The Mutation/The Proposal/The Prophecy/The Conspiracy/The Illusion/The Separation (Animorphs) (2000) 2 copies
Der unvergleichliche Ivan 2 copies
Animorphs: the invasion 2 copies
Animorphs Series (5) :#34 #35 #36 37,#38: The Other - The Mutation - The Journey - The Proposal - The Weakness - The… (2000) 2 copies
Animorphs Complete Series 2 copies
All 12 Everworld: Search for Senna, Land of Loss, Enter the Enchanted, Realm of Reaper, Discover Destroyer, Fear the… (1999) 2 copies
Rubra, A Árvore dos Desejos 2 copies
Der Kampf beginnt 1. 1 copy
Il regno dei folletti 1 copy
Animorphs: Volumes 49 Thru 52: The Diversion / The Ultimate / The Absolute / The Sacrifice (2000) 1 copy
L'inganno del mago 1 copy
Animorphs Set #35-39 The Proposal, The Mutation, The Weakness, The Arrival, The Hidden (1999) 1 copy
Animorphs Set 19-22 (#19 - The Departure, #20 - The Discovery, #21 - The Threat, #22 - The Solution) (1998) 1 copy
Duel Animorphs 26 1 copy
Animorphus Series 38 Titles! 1 copy
Ennemi 1 copy
Animorphs- Trust no one 1 copy
S.O.S. per il grande mago 1 copy
Book One: Ending 1 copy
L'albero dei due mondi 1 copy
Animorphs Book Set 1 copy
Animorphs Megamorphs Set Books 1-4 (Andalite's Gift, In Time of Dinosaurs, Elfangor's Secret, Back to Before) (2000) 1 copy
Inseguiti dagli Hetwan 1 copy
The Animorphs series 1 copy
Animorphs: The First Journal 1 copy
Copacul dorintelor 1 copy
Animorphs Series Boxed Set 1 copy
Animorphs The Sacrifices (Everyone has nightmares. But what happend when the nightmares are real?) (2001) 1 copy
Animorphs Boxset: The Diversion / The Ultimate / The Absolute / The Sacrifice (Animorphs, #49-52) 1 copy
Old Moore's Horoscopes and Daily Astral Diaries: Aquarius (Old Moore's 2001 horoscope) (2000) 1 copy
Land of the Lost 1 copy
White Fang 1 copy
Tas vienintelis Aivenhas 1 copy
Animorphs The Message 1 copy
Everworld intégrale 1 copy
Endling, The last, Book 1 1 copy
Animorphs the Departure 1 copy
Ever World 1 copy
Explore the World's of K.A. Applegate: Animorphs, 1: The Invasion, Everworlds, 1: Search for Senna, Remnants, 1: The… (2002) 1 copy
The invasion 1 copy
Associated Works
The One and Only Ivan [2020 film] — Original book — 3 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Applegate, Katherine Alice
- Other names
- Applegate, Katherine
Archer, C.
Benning, Elizabeth
Blair, L.E.
Kendall, Katherine
Kincaid, Beth (show all 11)
Michaels, Katherine
Plumb, A.R.
Pollari, Pat
Stephens, Nicholas
Young, Alida E - Birthdate
- 1956-07-19
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA (birth)
- Birthplace
- Michigan, USA
- Places of residence
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Michigan, USA
Texas, USA
Florida, USA
Irvine, California, USA
Minnesota, USA (show all 8)
Illinois, USA
Pelago, Italy - Relationships
- Grant, Michael (husband) (4)
- Short biography
- 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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Statistics
- Works
- 435
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 72,157
- Popularity
- #176
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 1,370
- ISBNs
- 1,980
- Languages
- 25
- Favorited
- 41
Roscoe does manage to ruin Gus’ shoes and because of it they both end up in time out. It’s amazing the ideas that children can come up with as a means of trying to get what they want or trying to help their friends to get something they want. Children will never cease to amaze me in that aspect.
I highly recommend this book for any child that is having a difficult time engaging in the book world. It has a nice lesson about following the rules and it has humor, which makes for a nice read.… (more)