![]() ![]() As the novel opens, we learn that Jake Sempler is a 13-year-old troublemaker with spiky red hair, a bad attitude and an eyebrow ring. Told through two narrators, the story fluctuates between the perspectives of Jake and E.D. Surviving the Applewhites was listed as a Newbery Honor Book in 2003. Thematically, the book touches on adolescence, personal growth, flowering, metamorphosis, evolution, identity, and finding one’s place in the world. However, through an unlikely bond he forms with E.D., the Applewhite’s underappreciated 12-year-old daughter, Jake is able to shed his past transgressions and become a new person. ![]() When he’s forced to live with an eccentric family of artists called the Applewhites, Jake struggles to fit in at first. Set in rural North Carolina, the story tells of 13-year-old Jake Sempler, a wayward juvenile delinquent who is sent away after inadvertently burning down his school. ![]() Surviving the Applewhites is the 2002 children’s novel written by American author Stephanie S. ![]()
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