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Katherine Alice Applegate is the author of the Animorphs, Remnants, Everworld and other book series, although some of the books in these series are ghostwritten by other authors.[1] Applegate's most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels. She won the Best New Children's Book Series Award in 1997 in Publishers Weekly. Her book Home of the Brave has won two awards. She is currently working on an early chapters series called Roscoe Riley Rules.
Applegate was born in Michigan on July 19, 1956. Since then she has lived in Texas, Florida, California, Minnesota, Illinois, North Carolina, and after living in Pelago, Italy for a year, she has moved back to Irving, in Southern California. In 2003, she and her husband, Michael Grant, her co-author on many projects including Animorphs and Everworld, adopted their daughter, Julia, in China. Following the end of Animorphs, Applegate took three years off. She is back at work and has written a picture book called The Buffalo Storm, a middle reader novel called Home of the Brave and an early chapters series Roscoe Riley Rules with HarperCollins. Her book Home of the Brave has won the SCBWI 2008 Golden Kite Award for Best Fiction, the Bank Street 2008 Josette Frank Award, and is a Judy Lopez Memorial Award honor book.
Аниморфы — серия книг, написанной Кэтрин Элис Эпплгейт (англ. K. A. Applegate) в 1996—2001 годах. В них рассказывается, как пятеро земных ребят и инопланетянин Акс, обладая способностью превращаться в животных, противостоят расе инопланетян-паразитов — йерков. В серии 54 книги, также существует телесериал и компьютерная игра.