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Katherine Applegate


Born
in Michigan, The United States
October 09, 1956

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Genre
Fiction, Children's Books


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 ...more

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Average rating: 4.06 · 666,681 ratings · 59,139 reviews · 283 distinct works • Similar authors
The One and Only Ivan (The ...
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4.27 avg rating — 195,056 ratings — published 2012 — 21 editions
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Wishtree
4.29 avg rating — 38,343 ratings — published 2017 — 64 editions
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Crenshaw
3.97 avg rating — 35,080 ratings — published 2015 — 61 editions
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Home of the Brave
4.26 avg rating — 12,447 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions
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The Last (Endling, #1)
4.21 avg rating — 6,133 ratings — published 2018 — 42 editions
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Series by Katherine Applegate

The One and Only Ivan The One and Only Bob The One and Only Ruby The One and Only Family
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June Dreams July's Promise August Magic Spring Break Sand, Surf, and Secrets Rays, Romance, and Rivalry Beaches, Boys, and Betrayal
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3.98 avg rating — 12,109 ratings

The Last The First The Only
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4.29 avg rating — 10,613 ratings

Zoey Fools Around Jake Finds Out Nina Won't Tell Ben's in Love Claire Gets Caught What Zoey Saw Lucas Gets Hurt
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3.89 avg rating — 8,365 ratings

The Mayflower Project Destination Unknown Them Nowhere Land Mutation Breakdown Isolation
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Quotes by Katherine Applegate  (?)
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“Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan
tags: memories, personal-identity
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“I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan
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“Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered.”
― Katherine Alice Applegate, The Beginning
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This poll for November still remains Members Choice due to the fact that you will be voting in your choice of book, picked from our second place books spread at random throughout the lifetime of BT polls.

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