Survivig The Applewhites

About The Author

Stephanie Tolan is an artist and a writer. In addition to "Surviving The Applewhites", she authored "Who's There?", "A Face In The Mirror", and "Flight of The Raven". "Surviving The Applewhites" received the Newbery Award. She lives with her husband in Charlotte, North Carolina.

About the Book

Have you ever thought what would happen to you if you where kicked out of every school around and burnt down one.Well the main charcter in Surviving The Applewhites does.This book is about a thirteen year old young man named Jake Semple. In the beginning of the book, Jake is a punk school drop-out. He had been to many schools before, and he even burned down one of his schools. He had been kicked out of many schools prior to coming to the Applewhite's Creative Academy located in a little town called Traybridge, North Carolina. During most of this book we see Jake trying to endure the crazy activities of the crazy artist family who runs the school. The main activity involves the Appelwhite family putting on "The Sound of Music" in their barn. Jake decides he wants to be an actor in the process. In the end, Jake accepts himself for who he is.The other characters of this story are all artists of some type.E.D is the middle kid in the Applewhite family who is probably the most organized of them all. She really is different from the others because she dosn't really have an artistic ability. Destiny is the youngest and is the most annoying of them all, because he will never stop talking and always is singing at the top of his lungs. Randolph is the father and is a director in the theater. Sybil the mom is a writer and loves poetry. Cordillia is the oldest child and loves ballet and dance. She never stops doing it either. Archie is the Uncle and makes tables