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Animorphs #02: The Visitor

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This is the best animorph book ever!!! Its the best book because my favourite character is Rachel and my favourite animal is a cat and in the book she morphs into a cat. The book is about five teens who get thrown into this intergalactic battle between the Yeerks(bad alien slugs who slither into your head and take over your body) and the Andalites (good aliens with the power to morph into any animal they touch.) In the last book a dying Andalite gave the five kids the power to turn into any animal they touch as well. In this book Rachel thinks her best friend Melissa is a controller (a person with a yeerk in their head) She morphs Melissa's cat Fluffer McKitty(!), and sneaks into their house. One catch: Mellisa is the daughter of their vice principal who also happens to be a controller...
This was the first animorph book I read and it was a great first animorph book for me.

The Vistitor is REALLY COOL!I love the books about Rachel and Tobias!So,this is the story....

Rachel used to be best friends with Melissa Chapman,but that was before the Yeerks,before the Andalite,and before the power to morph... Now Rachel seems to notice a chage in Melissa,She's not herself.Jake and the other Animorphs think they should spy on Melissa and her father,Principal Chapman,a known Controller.They only have one problem:How can they get inside the house?Rachel soon discovers the ideal morph:Melissa's cat,Fluffer Mckitty.Well inside the house Rachel makes some surprising discoveries,like why Chapman became a Controller,and other things..........

This is a Fabulous book!!!!!If you like the animorph books you need to read this!!!!

In this second installment of the bestselling ANIMORPHS series, the five teenagers who were given the power to morph into any animal they touch continue to battle the evil Yeerks. But the invasion gets personal for Rachel when she discovers that it has emotionally hurt one of her old friends, whose parents have both become Controllers, tools of the Yeerk invasion. The series continues in the third novel, "The Encounter." Like the others in the series, "The Visitor" can be read and enjoyed without having read the previous books.

In The Vistor Rachel is the narator. She tells about her adventures as an Animorph. In the first Chapter or so everything is kinda slow (I don't want to say boring but). After that everything really gets action packed. They want to spy on Mr.Chapman (the assistant principal at the school all the Animorphs go to except Tobias who got stuck in a morph as a hawk because he stayed in morph for too long). They know that Chapman is a big part in the Yeerks plan to take over the world. Chapman has a daughter named Melissa. She has a cat named Fluffer Mckitty. To get into Chapmans house Rachel has to become Fluffer. It is hard to catch Fluffer because he is a tomcat (A male cat). When they find him he gets scared and runs up a tree. To get Fluffer down Rachel has to become a shrew. Finally they get Fluffer down. After they acquire Fluffer's DNA.The next night they all went to Chapmans house. Rachel was the last one to arrive. She was already Fluffer. There was a kitty door going into the Chapman's house. When Rachel gets to the living room, Chapman is just sitting there. He walks to the basement and Rachel follows. Chapman turns on a machine and a Hologram of Visser Three appears. Visser Three is the Yeerk King. Chapman doesn't mind that the cat is there. When Visser Three notices the cat, he tells Chapman to kill it because it could be an Andalite Warrior. Rachel returns to visit Chapman again while he is talking to Visser Three. Rachel tries to hide, but Chapman finds her and catches her. He takes her to a construction site that is unfinished. Visser Three comes down in person. He puts Rachel in one of the space ships. Will this be the end of Rachel? I guess you will have to read the book to find out what happens next

The general plot of the story is already outlined, so I'm adding some thoughts from another quadrant - one parents can check into if they wish. This book stresses some points about family and friendship, while proving Ms. Applegate certainly knows her cats! Rachel is faced with some very tough choices which come to roost with her, personally. Could her best friend be a Controller? If she is or is not, how ethical is it to spy on your friend's home life, even use her to get information because you know her father is a host for a very important Yerk? The story is, as always, a fast paced read which weaves a tragic thread through the real horror of what the Animorphs are fighting for. Seeing her best friend suddenly alienated by her own parents -- the people who should love her the most and without question -- shows a hard and horrible impact on the main character's friend. In that vein, the story also stresses how much the parents do love their child, and the extreme lengths they will go through to protect their daughter. We begin to see the real horror of the invasion here, and an up close, personal insight to how it touches Rachel. As always, the book also has various morphs in it which give insight to shrews (I didn't know the shrew diet until I read this one), and the common household tom cat. As a former vet employee, I can agree with Cassie that pound for pound, a cat can be the most gentle and loving pet imaginable, but can also be a fickle chipper-shredder if provoked or frightened. You get even more insight to the imagination and speculations of what scientists, researchers, and owners believe their cat to think, see, and feel.

Well what can I say? This book TOTALLY shattered my views on cats. I really liked the part when Rachel is letting Melissa pet her. I recommend reading the first book first.

This book was a gift to our granddaughter who loves to read. She has not commented on this books. However, no news is good news.

Great series and I can't stop saying good things about it. I read these as a child and found to love books with their help. They are a quick easy read and if you haven't read them or have and find they are a little young for you try a side series they are a little bit more evolved and a teeny bit more adult. Happy reading!

This book is one of a series about kids saving the world
from alien slugs that take over people's bodies
through their ears.
The group of young teenagers have been given the ability
to morph into different animals once they acquire their DNA.
I kind of like these books,
but they are pretty light on science.

This was actually the first book of the series I read--my mom bought my twin brother and I the first two books of the series for our 12th birthday back in the day (wow, is the series really that old?!) I got this one because it had the girl turning into the pretty kitty, and I like cats. So I read it and that is pretty much when it happened. I don't care much for the middle section of this series, but K. A. Applegate truly started this series off with a bang and an excellent plot and a nice blend of emotion and action. It's classically sci-fi brain-stealing, but it has a varied cast and we can't help but love it all.