The Stranger (Animorphs Series #7)

by K. A. Applegate

Overview

The wildly popular books by K.A. Applegate are back! The Animorphs return in this update of the classic series.

Rachel isn't the kind of girl who backs away from a fight. When her dad asks her to move across the country with him, it hurts, but Rachel won't desert her friends in their fight to save the world.But then the Animorphs are contacted by a very old, very powerful alien being that knows about their struggle. He's called the Ellimist, and he presents them with a choice: They can abandon the planet with their families and be taken to safety, or they an stay to fight the Yeerks -- and lose.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545474009
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/2012
Series:	Animorphs Series
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
Lexile:	530L (what's this?)
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

K.A. Applegate is the married writing team Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant. Their Animorphs series has sold millions of copies worldwide and alerted the world to the presence of the Yeerks. Katherine is also the author of the Endling series and the Newbery Medal–winning The One and Only Ivan. Michael is also the author of the Front Lines and Gone series.

Read an Excerpt

From Animorphs #7: The Stranger:

The sticky red whip of the Taxxon's tongue stopped moving.

But it was more than that. Nothing was vibrating against my antennae. There were no sounds. There were no smells, because the air itself had stopped moving.

Then, without meaning to, I began to demorph.

What's going on? I asked.

I'm demorphing, Cassie said. But it wasn't me doing it.

Are we dead? Is this some kind of hallucination? I asked.

If it is, I'm having it, too, Jake said.

I swiftly grew larger and larger. My center pair of cockroach legs dwindled and disappeared. My lower legs swelled and grew skin.

I fell from the Taxxon's tongue to the ground, too large and heavy to be stuck any longer.

Toes appeared. Fingers appeared. My true human eyes opened.

I looked around, dazed and disoriented.

The others were all there. We were all human again, barefoot and dressed in our skin-tight morphing outfits, like we always were when we came out of a morph.

Ax was back in his Andalite body, just adding to the general weirdness of the scene.

We were inside a building. As we had guessed, it was a lunchroom. There was a kitchen to one side. There were a dozen long tables down the middle of the room.

People sat at the tables, eating. Only...they weren't eating. They were holding forks. They were looking down at plates of food. They were getting ready to speak. They were holding mugs of coffee.

But no one was moving.

No one was breathing.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Animorphs"Engaging ... impressive." -School Library Journal"There's clearly something about Animorphs that has kept kids enthralled."-Publisher's Weekly

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