Katherine Applegate has made a specialty of mining this emotional territory in novels that blend elements of fantasy and realism while tracking the changing fortunes of resilient outsiders - like a homeless fifth grader ( “Crenshaw”) and a Sudanese refugee (“Home of the Brave”), or, most memorably to date, a silverback gorilla living in captivity as the star attraction of a squalid shopping-mall tourist destination (“The One and Only Ivan”). ![]() 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.Outsider stories resonate strongly with children: Even the luckiest of us start life in a land of giants where doorknobs and cookie jars hover beyond reach and adults call most of the shots. Archer, Catherine Kendall and Elizabeth Benning. She also writes under the pen names of C. She writes the Animorphs, Everworld, and Remnants series under the pen name K. ![]() She is the author of the Making Waves, Making Out, and Roscoe Riley Rules series. She writes science fiction, young adult romances, and pop-up books. Katherine Applegate was born in Michigan on July 19, 1956. ![]() "A red oak tree and a crow help their human neighbors work out their differences"- Provided by publisher.
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