K. A. Applegate
Autor von The One and Only Ivan
Über den Autor
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. mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: K. A. Applegate. Photo by flickr use lknm4.
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Werke von K. A. Applegate
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla (2014) — Autor — 415 Exemplare, 25 Rezensionen
Tan Lines: Sand, Surf, and Secrets; Rays, Romance, and Rivalry; Beaches, Boys, and Betrayal (Summer) (2008) 121 Exemplare, 5 Rezensionen
ANIMORPHS Set #32-37 (#32-The Separation, #33-The Illusion, #34-The Prophecy, #35-The Proposal, #36-The Mutation,… 28 Exemplare
Disney's Christmas With All the Trimmings: Original Stories and Crafts from Mickey Mouse and Friends (1994) 19 Exemplare
Newbery Award Favorite Library 8 Book Box Set : Charlotte's Web, The One and Only Ivan, Ella Enchanted, Dragonwings (2020) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
Ivan & Friends Paperback 2-Book Box Set: The One and Only Ivan, The One and Only Bob (Ivan and Friends) (2022) 6 Exemplare
Roscoe Riley Rules 4 Books in 1!: Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs; Never Swipe a Bully's Bear; Don't Swap Your… (2016) 5 Exemplare
ANIMORPHS: MEGAMORPHS, 4 Volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4: The Andalite's Gift / In the Time of Dinosaurs / Elfangor's… (2000) 3 Exemplare
Animorphs: The Weakness 3 Exemplare
The Mutation/The Proposal/The Prophecy/The Conspiracy/The Illusion/The Separation (Animorphs) (2000) 2 Exemplare
Endling - Die neue Zeit: Spannende Fantasy für Mädchen und Jungen ab 11 (Die Endling-Trilogie, Band 3) (2021) 2 Exemplare
Animorphs: the invasion 2 Exemplare
All 12 Everworld: Search for Senna, Land of Loss, Enter the Enchanted, Realm of Reaper, Discover Destroyer, Fear the… (1999) 2 Exemplare
Animorphs Series (5) :#34 #35 #36 37,#38: The Other - The Mutation - The Journey - The Proposal - The Weakness - The… (2000) 2 Exemplare
Rubra, A Árvore dos Desejos 2 Exemplare
Le Seul et Unique Bob 1 Exemplar
Animorphus Series 38 Titles! 1 Exemplar
Animorphs The Andalite's Gift 1 Exemplar
Girl Talk : The Bookshop Mystery 1 Exemplar
Book One: Ending 1 Exemplar
Copacul dorintelor 1 Exemplar
Endling, The last, Book 1 1 Exemplar
White Fang 1 Exemplar
Animorphs Boxset: The Diversion / The Ultimate / The Absolute / The Sacrifice (Animorphs, #49-52) 1 Exemplar
Animorphs The Sacrifices (Everyone has nightmares. But what happend when the nightmares are real?) (2001) 1 Exemplar
Ever World 1 Exemplar
Animorphs Megamorphs (4 Book Series) 1 Exemplar
Explore the World's of K.A. Applegate: Animorphs, 1: The Invasion, Everworlds, 1: Search for Senna, Remnants, 1: The… (2002) 1 Exemplar
Animorphs Series Boxed Set 1 Exemplar
Animorphs: Volumes 49 Thru 52: The Diversion / The Ultimate / The Absolute / The Sacrifice (2000) 1 Exemplar
Animorphs Set #35-39 The Proposal, The Mutation, The Weakness, The Arrival, The Hidden (1999) 1 Exemplar
Everworld intégrale 1 Exemplar
animorphs what you don't know won't hurt you 1 Exemplar
Animorphs: The First Journal 1 Exemplar
The Animorphs series 1 Exemplar
animorphs what's on your mind... 1 Exemplar
Animorphs Boxset: The Familiar / The Journey / The Test / The Unexpected (Animorphs, #41-44) 1 Exemplar
Everworld, deuxième intégrale 1 Exemplar
Animorphs The Message 1 Exemplar
EverWorld Complete Set Series (Ever World) 1 Exemplar
Everworld, troisième intégrale 1 Exemplar
Alien by Applegate, K.A. [Paperback] 1 Exemplar
Animorphs Set 19-22 (#19 - The Departure, #20 - The Discovery, #21 - The Threat, #22 - The Solution) (1998) 1 Exemplar
Don’t Tap Dance On Your Teacher 1 Exemplar
The invasion 1 Exemplar
Endling - Die Suche beginnt: Spannende Fantasy für Mädchen und Jungen ab 11 (Die Endling-Trilogie, Band 1) (2021) 1 Exemplar
Endling - Weggefährten und Freunde: Spannende Fantasy für Mädchen und Jungen ab 11 (Die Endling-Trilogie, Band 2) (2020) 1 Exemplar
Animorphs Book Set 1 Exemplar
Animorphs- Fear Ha A New Name....Yeerk 1 Exemplar
Land of the Lost 1 Exemplar
Old Moore's Horoscopes and Daily Astral Diaries: Aquarius (Old Moore's 2001 horoscope) (2000) 1 Exemplar
Animorphs- Nothing is What it Seems 1 Exemplar
Animorphs- Now, He's One of Them 1 Exemplar
Animorphs- This Time There May be no Way Out 1 Exemplar
Animorphs- Trust no one 1 Exemplar
Tas vienintelis Aivenhas 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
Mein kleiner Horrortrip: Die kürzesten Schockgeschichten aller Zeiten (2009) — Mitwirkender — 280 Exemplare, 21 Rezensionen
The One and Only Ivan [2020 film] — Original book — 3 Exemplare
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Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Applegate, Katherine Alice
- Andere Namen
- Applegate, Katherine
Archer, C.
Benning, Elizabeth
Blair, L.E.
Kendall, Katherine
Kincaid, Beth (Zeige alle 11)
Michaels, Katherine
Plumb, A.R.
Pollari, Pat
Stephens, Nicholas
Young, Alida E - Geburtstag
- 1956-07-19
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA (birth)
- Geburtsort
- Michigan, USA
- Wohnorte
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Michigan, USA
Texas, USA
Florida, USA
Irvine, California, USA
Minnesota, USA (Zeige alle 8)
Illinois, USA
Pelago, Italy - Beziehungen
- Grant, Michael (husband) (4)
- Kurzbiographie
- 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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Fängt man an zu lesen, wird man relativ schnell merken, dass sich das Buch eher an ältere Kinder richtet, da manche der Ausführungen doch recht direkt beschrieben werden.
Im Laufe der Handlung begegnet den Lesenden auch immer wieder bekannte Namen, die man aus der Geschichte bzw. Mythologie kennen wird, diese Idee des Paralleluniversums fand ich auch echt gut. Leider konnte mich die Autorin nicht wirklich überzeugen und in die Welt eintauchen lassen.
Das Ende ist sehr offen gehalten, was aber auch nicht verwundert, da es mehrere Bücher der Reihe gibt.
Ein sehr kurzes Jugendbuch, das mich nicht wirklich in die Welt und den Bann ziehen konnte, dass dem ein oder anderen Jugendlichen sicherlich gefallen wird.… (mehr)