First published in the United States of America by HarperCollins Publishers in 2012

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2012

      Published in this film tie-in edition by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2020

      Published in this ebook edition in 2020

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      Text copyright © Katherine Applegate 2012

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      Source ISBN: 9780008408367

      Ebook Edition © August 2020 ISBN: 9780007468461

      Version: 2020-09-29

      For Julia

      Epigraph

      It is never too late to be

       what you might have been.

      —George Eliot

      Contents

       Cover

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Epigraph

      Hello

      Names

      Patience

      How I Look

      The Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade

      The Littlest Big Top on Earth

      Gone

      Artists

      Shapes in Clouds

      Imagination

      The Loneliest Gorilla in the World

      TV

      The Nature Show

      Stella

      Stella’s Trunk

      A Plan

      Bob

      Wild

      Picasso

      Three Visitors

      My Visitors Return

      Sorry

      Julia

      Drawing Bob

      Bob and Julia

      Mack

      Not Sleepy

      The Beetle

      Change

      Guessing

      Jambo

      Lucky

      Arrival

      Stella Helps

      Old News

      Tricks

      Introductions

      Stella and Ruby

      Home of the One and Only Ivan

      Art Lesson

      Treat

      Elephant Jokes

      Children

      The Parking Lot

      Ruby’s Story

      A Hit

      Worry

      The Promise

      Knowing

      Five Men

      Comfort

      Crying

      The One and Only Ivan

      Once Upon A Time

      The Grunt

      Mud

      Protector

      A Perfect Life

      The End

      Vine

      The Temporary Human

      Hunger

      Still Life

      Punishment

      Babies

      Beds

      My Place

      Nine Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-Six Days

      A Visit

      A New Beginning

      Poor Mack

      Colours

      A Bad Dream

      The Story

      How

      Remembering

      What They Did

      Something Else to Buy

      Another Ivan

      Days

      Nights

      Project

      Not Right

      Going Nowhere

      Bad Guys

      Ad

      Imagining

      Not-Tag

      One More Thing

      The Seven O’clock Show

      Twelve

      H

      Nervous

      Showing Julia

      More Paintings

      Chest Beating

      Angry

      Puzzle Pieces

      Finally

      The Next Morning

      Mad Human

      Phone Call

      A Star Again

      The Ape Artist

      Interview

      The Early News

      Signs on Sticks

      Protesters

      Check