K. A. Applegate Biography

This Study Guide consists of approximately 16 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Search for Senna.

K. A. Applegate Biography

This Study Guide consists of approximately 16 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Search for Senna.
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Katherine Alice Applegate is simultaneously one of America's most famous authors and one of America's most mysterious.

She guards her privacy, as does her publisher, Scholastic, which has brilliantly marketed her Animorphs and Everworld series for astounding sales. Applegate was already a well-established writer of books for young readers, mostly romance novels, when she proposed the Animorphs series to Scholastic, where the proposal was met with enthusiasm. She wanted to write a series of books that showed how the world might look from the perspectives of different animals; the result has been a series of fascinating novellas for late elementary to junior high school students.

Having moved several times around the United States, the Michigan-born writer now resides in Minneapolis. She has published more than one hundred books, and she has written them at an amazing pace. Begun in 1996, her Animorphs series numbered more...

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