Katherine Applegate

Katherine Applegate is the author of several best-selling young adult series, including Animorphs and Roscoe Riley Rules. Home of the Brave, her first standalone novel, received the SCBWI 2008 Golden Kite Award for Best Fiction and the Bank Street 2008 Josette Frank Award. “In Kek’s story, I hope readers will see the neighbor child with a strange accent, the new kid in class from some faraway land, the child in odd clothes who doesn’t belong,” she says. “I hope they will see themselves.” She lives with her family in Irvine, California.

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Katherine Applegate on Home of the Brave

Katherine Applegate, author of the hit YA series, Animorphs, discusses Home of the Brave, her first standalone novel.

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Home of the Brave

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Square Fish

A deeply poetic and affecting novel about the contemporary immigrant experience.


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