Katherine Applegate

Katherine Applegate is the Newbery Medal-winning and 1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous books for young readers, including The One and Only Ivan , wishtree , Odder , Crenshaw , Willodeen , Pocket Bear , the Endling series, the Roscoe Riley Rules chapter books series, and the Animorphs series. She lives with her husband, who writes as the author Michael Grant, in Nevada. You are looking at Katherine Applegate, gerbil saleswoman. That’s right: the local paper even ran a story entitled “Pert Ten-Year-Old Becomes Gerbil Saleswoman.” (I share more about my entrepreneurial ventures in this interview with The Startup Squad .) Before I was a writer, I was the world’s worst waitress. (Oh, the drinks that were spilled. Yes, sometimes on the customers.)