The Islanders (30 page)
Authors: Katherine Applegate
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KATHERINE APPLEGATE
and
MICHAEL GRANT
began their writing careers as co-authors, creating the Islanders and several other series together. The Islanders was inspired by their time together in Portland, Maine, a town for which they continue to feel great affection. Since those long-ago days, Michael has become a
New York Times
bestselling author with his Gone and Messenger of Fear series, and Katherine has won the 2013 Newbery Medal for her novel
The One and Only Ivan
.
They live in northern California with their two children and assorted pets.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made for the use of extended quotations from
In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
, by James Lee Burke. Reprinted by permission of Hyperion, Copyright © 1993 James Lee Burke
Originally published by HarperPaperbacks as
Boyfriends Girlfriends
THE ISLANDERS: VOLUME 2
. Copyright © 1994 by Daniel Weiss Associates and Katherine Applegate. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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