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“I wasn’t much of a reader growing up,” says Katherine Applegate, the award-winning author of The One and Only Ivan (2012, Harper). “It is not that I didn’t read; I just wasn’t one of those [...]

David LaRochelle, an award-winning author and illustrator, didn’t always want to be a writer. “When I was very young, what I wanted to be was a dragon. Then I realized that was not a possible [...]

Who would have thought the adventures and misadventures of an average middle-school boy would be so popular? Definitely not Jeff Kinney, the author of the bestselling “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” [...]