The Predator (Animorphs, No. 5) [Paperback]

Katherine A. Applegate (Author), Northam Anderson (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Animorphs

Resenting his Animorph powers, Marco prefers to watch over his widower father until he learns that his mother is still alive, and he is horrified to discover that she is the highest ranking officer in the Yeerk army.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590629816
• ISBN-13: 978-0590629812
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #240,290 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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Being an Aniorph is INSANE!, April 1, 2000

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Philzurfer (VA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Predator (Animorphs, No. 5) (Paperback)

Marco looks out for himself and his dad. Ever since his mother died, he has been doing a lot of the housework and keeping his life normal in his cynical way. Then he and his four friends, Jake, Rachel, Cassie, and Tobias, were given the power to turn into any animal they want. They have to protect Earth from the Yeerks, a slug-like alien species which wants to take over the the human race. Marco is not too happy about this. All he ever wanted was a calm life. But his world is gong to change even more when he meets Visser One, leader of the Yeerks and who he's infesting.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hi, mommy visser, November 12, 1999

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This review is from: The Predator (Animorphs, No. 5) (Paperback)

Marco never wanted to be an animorph. Kids who turned into animals to save the world from evil space slugs called yeerks. It was just INSANE! But then Ax, the andalite (a species that have been fighting the yeerks for a long time. They were born with he abilit to morph. One of them gave the animorphs their powers) decides he wants to go home. And to do that he needs a yeerk spaceship. after going through hilarious antics at the mall and having a terrfying experience as ants, they call a fighter ship. The plan is to knock out the drivers in their most powerful morphs. But the yeerk blade ship also comes which contains Visser Three the only yeerk to infest an andalite. The animorphs are caught and brought aboard the yeerk mothership. There they meet Visser One, one of the yeerks' most poerful leaders. But Marco feels like he's known Visser One all his life.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love blue horses with scorpian tails, July 21, 2010

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This review is from: The Predator (Animorphs, No. 5) (Paperback)

I love these books since I was young and have been rebuilding my collection since I donated mine years ago. It is sad you can't get new copies of the books but I am getting used copies and treating them with a product libraries use to treat their books so they will last forever as i will probably be the only one reading them until I have kids.