Upon returning to writing, she wrote a picture book, Buffalo Storm, a middle reader novel, Home of the Brave, and an early chapters series, Roscoe Riley Rules, with HarperCollins. Following the end of Remnants, Applegate took three years off. In 2003, they adopted a daughter, Julia, from China. In 1997, she and her husband, Michael Grant, her co-author on many projects, including Animorphs and Everworld, had their first child, who has since come out as a transgender woman. She got her start as a ghostwriter for Sweet Valley Twins. After living in Pelago, Italy for a year, she moved back to Irvine, California. Since then, she has lived in Texas, Florida, California, Illinois, and North Carolina.

She also wrote a chapter book series in 2008–09 called Roscoe Riley Rules.Īpplegate was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her book Home of the Brave has won several awards. She won the Best New Children's Book Series Award in 1997 in Publishers Weekly. Applegate's most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels. She won the 2013 Newbery Medal for her 2012 children's novel The One and Only Ivan.

Applegate or Katherine Applegate, is an American young adult and children's fiction writer, best known as the author of the Animorphs, Remnants, Everworld, and other book series. Katherine Alice Applegate (born October 9, 1956), known professionally as K. Applegate at the 2013 Texas Book Festival.Ĭhildren's fantasy, science fiction, adventure novels

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