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The Capture (Animorphs, #6)

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Can you believe it! Jake, the leader of the Animorphs, theone that has to make all the life- and-death decisons, has one ofthose DIGUSTING Yeerks in his head! Here's the facts: the Animorphsfind out about some people becoming Controllers in a hospital. They cheak it out. Sneak in as flies. Suddenly, BAM! They're attacked! Jake is shot and falls in a portable Yeerk Pool. This means trouble. If they don't get rid of the Yeerk, the Animorphs lose their leader... and their lives! Read the book to find out what happeans. You'll love it!

Jake and the other Animorphs discover that the Yeerks plan to invade plenty of humans against their will at the town's hospital. To make things worse, the Yeerks want to invade the state's governor who is planning to run for president! When the Animorphs take a trip to the town's hospital to do some invesitgating, they stumble onto a Yeerk pool...and Jake accidentaley falls into the Yeerk pool.

Now, Jake has a Yeerk in his head and there's nothing he can do about it. The Yeerk knows all his secrets (including the names of the Animorphs) and Jake isn't able to tell his friends anything. Fortunately, the others have figured out Jake's been invaded, and they have a plan to destroy the Yeerk. Unless the Yeerk figures out a way to destroy them all first...

THE CAPTURE is an excellent novel. The beginning started out as one of your average Animorphs books, but then the middle was where the things got intense. It really had me page-turning, and I could've sworn that it would be the end for Jake. The very ending of this book might make you a little sad, but it's something to expect in a book by K.A. Applegate. All in all, this is a very good book to keep you entertained for a while

I really enjoyed it. I was reading it on the bus,and thought I was Jake with a yeerk in my head. It has some laughs, about 90% from Marco. It also has suspense, danger, and some new morphs. what is special about Animorphs books is that the characters can turn into (morph) any animal they touch. They use this ability that they got from Andalites (good guys), to fight Yeerks, evil slugs that go inside intelligent species, Hork-Bajir, Taxxons Etc. and take over the body. Best book ever!!!

With this story, the characters are already fairly well established by the earlier books, and we've gotten to know them. Now we see Jake, the leader of the group, taken by the enemy and trapped within his own body. As it has been with the other books leading up to this one, you'll find a fairly fast paced and well thought out plot with a great deal of adventure to feed the readers interest. There are animals and a few new morphs, including the less than popular (at first, but very handy) house fly morph. As the Animorphs often put it, turning into a fly is unbelievably gross, but BEING a fly is very cool! About halfway through the story, Jake is infested by a Yeerk, and the deeper threads of the story are subdued (this part is mostly for the parents out there who might be curious) but in the tradition of the other books, it does exist. This story not only gives the enemy a "face" which is well written to make you really detest that Yeerk, but it also focuses on a very important factor common to everyone -- our personal freedom. The threads beneath the story tend to run along the vein of "never give up, even when you may not have a fighting chance, you still don't give up." As an American, myself, the thought of loss of freedom is a terrible thought, yet the loss of it meaning not just your country or government but the control of your own body is appalling. Jake and his friends fight tooth, nail, claw, paw, talon and feather to help him hang on to that very personal freedom. You might say, that in its way, that its also a story of both friendship and comrades in arms on that level. None of this, however, leaves a reader feeling like the somewhat silly cartoons of the 80's where they crammed a moral to the story down your throat at the end of the program. These elements are simply threads, small parts, of a whole which makes the characters believable, and the story entertaining. As always, the main points of the novel are "hold your breath" scenes where you're turning each page in anticipation to see how it will turn out, and plenty of humor along the way.

I think this is the best Animorphs book, and I have read almost all of them. It could be because Jake is my favorite character, but I don't think so. You have to read it!!!!

This is the familiar phrase used by controllers in their internal battle with the Yeerks. All along we have seen the controllers, the Yeerks, as the bad guys. But now one of our hero's, and the leader of the Animorphs, _is_ a controller. This book gives us a feel and a deeper perception of what the actual host is going through. Set in the first person, you experiance firsthand the struggle of the host agains the parasite. And you begin to see that there is more than two sides to this battle. Because whenever the animorphs kill a controller, they are also killing an innocent being, a pawn in this intergallactic war. Will the animorphs be able to save our hero Jake? Or will he get back to Visser Three and tell all. Oh the suspense...

In this book the Animorphs learn that their local govener is going to a hospital to have a minor surgeory. The yeerks happen to run this hospital. When the Animorphs try to destroy the portible Yeerk pool, Jake becomes a controller and the animorphs have to keep the Yeerk contained for three days so it would die without Kandrona Rays. Very fast paced and emotional, a must read for any animorph fan!!:)

In this book Jake has been checking the redial button on his phone when his brother (host of Temrash one-one-four) has been calling other controllers about a plan that is being carried out at a hospital that is owned by the yeerks. If you check in free you check out as a host. So the animorphs decide to take a look but they find the yeerk pool and Jake gets knocked out and falls into it. He was in long enough that a yeerk crawled in his ear. The one who was in his brother earlier that day to be exact.

One of the funniest parts of the book is when Ax is about to morph Jake when the yeerk says somethink like "get away 'andalite scun'" and then says something like "ooh ooh I didn't mean anything". Then One of the others says "you really expect me to think Jake would have said that?".

They should rate this book at least 9,000,000,000 stars!

I really reccomend this book. Especially if you like animorphs!

It was a good book. I like the part where Jake says Get out of my head you dirty slug!!!!!! I can't belive that he fell into the Yeerk Pool for a Yeerk to crawl into his ear!!! I hope I can get the whole series. This is a one of a kind book!!!

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.