Animorphs

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'''Animorphs''' was a book series created by [[Katherine Applegate]] and published by Scholastic. There were 64 books in all, including 54 'main universe' books, four 'megamorphs' (double-sized books), four standalone novels, and two choose-your-own-adventure. In addition, there were Animorphs [[Transformers]], video games, and a short-lived TV show on Nickelodeon.

In the series, the main enemy was the Yeerk species, a sort of mind-controlling [[Wikipedia:parasite|parasite]]. In order to fight the yeerks, a group of humans is given the gift of [[transformation|shapechanging]] by a dying Andalite.

This gift is temporary -- the change can only last for two hours -- and it is possible to be trapped in a form (indeed, a main character, Tobias, is trapped in the first book, but he gets his powers back thanks to the Ellimist in the thirteenth). Additionally, the human will have to fight.

The six main characters are Jake (signature morph: [[tiger]]), Cassie (signature morph: [[wolf]]), Marco (signature morph: [[gorilla]]), Rachel (signature morph: [[elephant]] until book seven at which point it alternates between elephant and [[grizzly bear]]), Tobias (signature morph: red-tailed [[hawk]]), and Aximili (an Andalite, a sort of [[Wikipedia:psychic|psychic]] [[deer]]-[[scorpion]] [[taur]]). Aximili was rescued from the remnants of an Andalite Dome Ship in the fourth book. In the next (fifth) book, Marco discovers that his mother ((sometimes called Eva, other times called Laura)) is Visser One. In book six, Jake accidentally falls into a Yeerk Pool and ends up with the Yeerk, named Temrash, who used to be in his brother Tom's head in his. At the very end, Jake sees a Big Red Eye, who isn't named until the twenty-sixth book. The fanbase at this point was already very strong, and was able to persuade Applegate to bring back the B.R.E., as the fans had started calling him. Another fan-induced idea happened in books five and thirteen, when a member of the usually dumb Hork-Bajir "started talking like he had a Harvard education", as Marco put it in book five. Eight books later, a name was given to this type of Hork-Bajir: Seer. A fan named Erin Dover had persuaded Applegate to use intelligent Hork-Bajir.
((Note: The original term Dover used was Hork-Bajir Thinker, not Hork-Bajir Seer.))

In the twenty-third book, it is discovered that Aximili, or Ax, as the others call him, is Tobias' uncle, although the fans had known this ever since the Andalite Chronicles came out.

==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animorphs Animorphs at Wikipedia]
*[http://www.scholastic.com/animorphs/index.htm Official site at Scholastic.com]

[[Category:Story series]]

Animorphs

2005-12-11T15:28:52Z

68.41.212.119:

'''Animorphs''' was a book series created by [[Katherine Applegate]] and published by Scholastic. There were 64 books in all, including 54 'main universe' books, four 'megamorphs' (double-sized books), four standalone novels, and two choose-your-own-adventure. In addition, there were Animorphs [[Transformers]], video games, and a short-lived TV show on Nickelodeon.

In the series, the main enemy was the Yeerk species, a sort of mind-controlling [[Wikipedia:parasite|parasite]]. In order to fight the yeerks, a group of humans is given the gift of [[transformation|shapechanging]] by a dying Andalite.

This gift is temporary -- the change can only last for two hours -- and it is possible to be trapped in a form (indeed, a main character, Tobias, is trapped in the first book, but he gets his powers back thanks to the Ellimist in the thirteenth). Additionally, the human will have to fight.

The six main characters are Jake (signature morph: [[tiger]]), Cassie (signature morph: [[wolf]]), Marco (signature morph: [[gorilla]]), Rachel (signature morph: [[elephant]]), Tobias (signature morph: red-tailed [[hawk]]), and Aximili (an Andalite, a sort of [[Wikipedia:psychic|psychic]] [[deer]]-[[scorpion]] [[taur]]). Aximili was rescued from the remnants of a Andalite Dome Ship in the fourth book. In the next (fifth) book, Marco discovers that his mother ((sometimes called Eva, other times called Laura)) is Visser One. In book six, Jake accidently falls into a Yeerk Pool and ends up with the Yeerk who used to be in his brother Tom's head in his. At the very end, Jake sees a Big Red Eye, who isn't named until the twenty-sixth book. The fanbase at this point was already huge, and was able to persuade Applegate to bring back the B.R.E., as the fans had started calling him. Another fan-induced idea happened in books five and thirteen, when a member of the usually dumb Hork-Bajir "started talking like he had a Harvard education", as Marco put it in book five. Eight books later, a name was given to this type of Hork-Bajir: Seer. A fan named Erin Dover had persuaded Applegate to use intelligent Hork-Bajir.
((Note: The original term Dover used was Hork-Bajir Thinker, not Hork-Bajir Seer.))

In the twenty-third book, it is discovered that Aximili, or Ax, as the others call him, is Tobias' uncle.

==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animorphs Animorphs at Wikipedia]
*[http://www.scholastic.com/animorphs/index.htm Official site at Scholastic.com]

[[Category:Story series]]

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