Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Tobias, and Marco are fairly typical
kids on their way home from hanging out at the mall when
they have an encounter of the weirdest kind. It was kind of
creepy in an exciting way cutting across the pit and gravel
of the construction site but they never expected to spot a
UFO crash landing, nor the alien who emerged asking for
their help. Before they can fully grasp what is happening,
other nastier aliens show up and seem to be working with
humans to somehow infiltrate the Earth.
It might have all been a dream by the time they woke the
next morning but the first alien seems to have left a gift
behind, a certain power which will give the five friends a
tool in their fight against what is happening to their
world. Without knowing who they can trust among the
grownups, the fate of all humans seems to be in their hands.
Popular when they first came out in 1996, Scholastic has
reissued this wonderfully adventurous and just-creepy-enough
series in new packaging featuring a very cool morphing
almost 3D illustration on each cover. The Animorphs series
has all the best elements of the books I loved to read in
grade school: kids empowered to make a difference, strong
science fiction or fantasy elements woven into an otherwise
ordinary world, and characters that have honest quirks and
human failings yet still manage to do amazing things beyond
what they always believed they could do when the chips are
down. I am glad to see these books back in print, ready for
the next batch of young readers to dive in to the adventure.
THE INVASION is book one of six in the Animorphs series, and
features Jake as he discovers the adults in his life are
right, growing up is all about change, but the kind of
changing he's doing lately is probably not what they meant.
The wildly popular series by K.A. Applegate is back! The
first six books of Animorphs return, with striking new
lenticular covers that morph.The Earth is being invaded, but
no one knows about it. When Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie,
and Marco stumble upon a downed alien spaceship and its
dying pilot, they're given an incredible power -- they can
transform into any animal they touch. With it, they become
Animorphs, the unlikely champions in a secret war for the
planet. And the enemies they're fighting could be anyone,
even the people closest to them. So begins K.A. Applegate's
epic series about five normal kids with a limitless amount
of forms and abilities.
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