Katherine K.A. Applegate

Katherine K.A. Applegate is an American author of fiction. Born in Michigan on October 9, 1956, her full name is Katherine Alice Applegate. She goes by K.A. Applegate or her other pen names, L.E.

The best place to start is the Girl Talk series, the earliest of Katherine K.A. Applegate's multi-book series: it opens with Welcome to Junior High! (1990) and runs to 45 books across 1990–1992, ending with Sabrina and Too Many Boys! (1992). Katherine K.A. Applegate's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Katherine K.A. Applegate has 300 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1990 and 2026. 287 of them belong to 21 named series — the largest being the Animorphs series with 54 books — and 13 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Katherine K.A. Applegate's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Girl Talk (1990–1992, 45 books), Love Stories For Young Adults (1991–2000, 52 books) and Disney's The Little Mermaid (1992–1994, 12 books), plus 18 more.

This guide splits Katherine K.A. Applegate's 300 books into 21 named series and 13 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Animorphs (54 books, 1996–2001); Love Stories For Young Adults (52 books, 1991–2000); Girl Talk (45 books, 1990–1992); Making Out (28 books, 1994–1998); Remnants (14 books, 2001–2003), plus 16 further series.