Animorphs #28: The Experiment [Paperback]

K.A. Applegate (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1999 | Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Animorphs (Book 28)

The Yeerks are ready to control humans where it counts--in their D.N.A. They're working on a drug that saps humans of their free will. But the Animorphs show them that human free will runs deeper than any drug can reach.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks; First edition (April 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590762613
• ISBN-13: 978-0590762618
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #499,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Katherine Applegate's many books include the Roscoe Riley Rules chapter book series, the picture book The Buffalo Storm, and the award-winning novel Home of the Brave. With her husband, Michael Grant, she wrote the hugely popular series Animorphs, which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide.

Katherine was inspired to write The One and Only Ivan after reading about the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, the Shopping Mall Gorilla. The real Ivan lived alone in a tiny cage for twenty-seven years at a shopping mall before being moved to Zoo Atlanta after a public outcry. He is now a beloved celebrity at the zoo, which houses the nation's largest collection of western lowland gorillas. Ivan is well known for his paintings, which he "signs" with a thumb-print.

Katherine lives in California with her husband and two children.

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I think you people are missing the point of the book here., September 23, 1999

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[e-mail] (Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Animorphs #28: The Experiment (Paperback)

Now I've been reading these books for three strait years now, most of the people I know have been reading for MAYBE a year. I started these books right after The Visitor came out and still avidly wait for each new book. So anyway several people out there seem to think that these books are aimed at little kids. They arn't. While the ideas of turning into animals might seem fairy-tailish, or maybe it's just because they are short books, but lets face it, these teens deal with life problems, from things that no human should have to go through, to the normal teenage problem of what to do Saturday night.

As for the moral issues. Well lets face it, the average teen hates seeing animals abused in such a manner. But then the average teen doesn't have to worry about saving the world either. As for Ax well, Ax just understands, being an Andalite he knows that some things must die so others can live. The only reason that it really got to Cassie is because she is the only one that really loves animals, the others care, but it simply pains Cassie in a way the others can't know or understand.

And as for it being plotless? Yep, maybe, but you can't think that the Animorphs are ALWAYS on the right misson, they have enough luck as it is, to pull that off they HAVE to have a few falls. But it wasn't POINTless, the main thing about the story was about FREEDOM, the Animorphs fight too keep it. It is sorta like a second hope, even if the yeerks can take all the humans bodies they can't have their free will. It means that you can still fight, even after it may seem that the battle is lost. So maybe this isn't the normal battle filled, Visser Three at every turn, Animorphs book. But I think it was the most importent of any of them.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Let me lecture you on why I gave it 5 stars rather than -5., June 4, 1999

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[e-mail] (Malaysia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Animorphs #28: The Experiment (Paperback)

Ahem, now you fans, listen up, some of you haven't got the point of the book.As time changes the books change and in this case, it's a little deep.It storyline is complex and hard to get to the point. The message it's trying to give you guys is there's no such thing as a human without free will.And if you guys think im corny, i'll give you a easier explanation, K.A. Applegate is writing Animorphs and Everworld at once so she's probably kind of losing her touch. But I don't think so. don't just read, understand, don't flash through and go through it in 10 minutes.Go and take your time to read and ponder and be pensive for a while.So think about what i've said and try to go with it.:)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute must-read Ax-book!, April 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Animorphs #28: The Experiment (Paperback)

I absolutely love this book. Ax is my personal favorite character and he tells his story from the point of veiw of an involved observer. His ideas and feelings penetrated by mind and made me think about things I don't normally think of. His words and thoughts are so vivid that I feel like he's not a book character, but a real creature who thinks and feels. YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK!