Saturday, July 21, 2012

The Invasion.

Hi!This is the first book review! I will be able to change Books Poems Pets and Craft name soon!
Series:Animorphs.

Name:The Invasion

Author:K.A. Applegate

Main characters:
The Animorphs: Rachel,Cassie,Tobias,Marco,Jake.  
Andilites:  War Prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, Alloran-Semitur-Corrass(host to Visser Three) 
Yeerks:Visser 3, Tom's Yeerk, Chapman's Yeerk
Other Humans:  Tom, Mr. Chapman, policeman.
Other animals : Homer, Dude, Big Jim, horse, lizard, Siberian Tiger.
Other Controllers: Hork-Bajir ,taxxons.


About: Five human kids are walking home from the mall one evening, when they spot a spaceship land in a old construction site. Naturally, they go to see why it has landed. Then they meet Prince Elfangor, and Andilite War prince who has been fighting Visser 3. He then gives the power to morph to the kids. Andilites can't talk, because they have no mouths.  So he "speaks" to them in thought speak. He tells them that Visser 3 wants to conquer Earth with his army of Yeerks. Yeerks in their natural form are described like grey slugs. The Yeerks crawl into peoples ears and take over their brains. The thing they take over is called a controller. The controller can not say anything, or do anything unless the Yeerk makes it.   Then Visser 3 comes to the construction site.  Visser three then morphs into a creature and eats Elfangor. Then the kids run for cover and escape. Next morning Tobias morphs his cat, Dude. Then Jake morphs his dog, Homer. Then they go over to Cassie's house, where they see Rachel watching a horse. They horse then de-morphs into Cassie. Then a policeman comes to her house, asking for 5 teenagers who were in a construction site. They then realize the policeman is a controller. Then they discuss what to do, and they decide to save the earth. Then, Jake goes home and finds out  his brother, Tom is a controller. They find out that the sharing is a group which recruits new controllers. They invade a meeting of the Sharing, and Jake morphs Homer. Then they discover that Chapman  is a controller.Then they leave the meeting. They next day, they go to a zoo and Marco acquires a gorilla called Big Jim. then Marco and Jake acquire a tiger while Rachel acquires an elephant. Jake then acquires a lizard and invades the school. The book ends about there.




Rating(1-5):  5


Picture:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/The_Invasion_Front_Cover.jpg
Picture from Wikipedia