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The Android (Animorphs) Paperback – Import, September 18, 1998

by K.A. Applegate (Author), Katherine Applegate (Author)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
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When Marco runs into his old friend Erek he doesn't think too much of it. He's got a couple of more important things to do. Like helping to save the world. But then Marco finds out Erek's been hanging with some of the kids at The Sharing. And he starts to think that something just a little weird is going on.
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  1. Book 10 of 54
    Animorphs
  2. Print length
    192 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Scholastic Hippo
  5. Publication date
    September 18, 1998
  6. Dimensions
    5.08 x 0.51 x 7.8 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0590112953
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0590112956
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scholastic Hippo (September 18, 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0590112953
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0590112956
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 0.51 x 7.8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 199 ratings

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Katherine A. Applegate

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Applegate has written many books for young readers, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal.

Katherine’s picture books include THE BUFFALO STORM, illustrated by Jan Ormerod (Clarion Books); THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF IVAN, THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Clarion Books); and SOMETIMES YOU FLY, illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Clarion Books).

She’s written two early chapter series for young readers: ROSCOE RILEY RULES, a seven-book series illustrated by Brian Biggs (HarperCollins); and DOGGO AND PUPPER, a three-book series illustrated by Charlie Alder (Feiwel & Friends).

Books for middle-grade readers include HOME OF THE BRAVE (Feiwel & Friends); THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, illustrated by Patricia Castelao (HarperCollins); THE ONE AND ONLY BOB, illustrated by Patricia Castelao (HarperCollins); the ENDLING trilogy (HarperCollins); CRENSHAW (Feiwel & Friends); WISHTREE (Feiwel & Friends); and WILLODEEN (Feiwel & Friends).

With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co-wrote ANIMORPHS, a long-running series that has sold over 35 million books worldwide. They also wrote two other series, REMNANTS and EVERWORLD, and a young adult novel, EVE AND ADAM (Feiwel & Friends.)

Katherine’s work has been translated into dozens of languages, and her books have won accolades including the Christopher Medal, the Golden Kite Award, the Bank Street Josette Frank Award, the California Book Award Gold Medal, the Crystal Kite Award, the Green Earth Book Honor Award, the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award, and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Many of her works have appeared on state master lists, Best of the Year lists, and Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and New York Times bestseller lists.

THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN was made into a Disney movie starring Brian Cranston, Sam Rockwell, and Angelina Jolie.

Katherine lives in California, with her family and assorted pets. She is represented by Elena Giovinazzo at Pippin Properties, Inc.

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robert irwin
5.0 out of 5 stars Still in love
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2017
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Still in love with this series. So glad it's digital now and I can enjoy it all again. Thanks much
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B. Pilgrim
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Series
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2013
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My son found this book series in a used bookstore. My whole family loves this series and this book was a great price.
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Ann Rast
5.0 out of 5 stars Great item
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2013
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This was a gift for my grandson who is a fan of this series. He has spent many hours enjoying it.
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Joe Kessler
4.0 out of 5 stars A strong but exposition-heavy adventure
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2021
I wouldn't go so far as to call this a series-best Animorphs volume, but it's one of the stronger entries for sure. It's also the rare case of an item in this franchise with an unambiguous, straightforward title: this is in fact a story about an android!

Specifically, he's a Chee, a race of cyborgs who long ago fled to earth to escape their enemies the Howlers (and to graft the dying essence of their Pemalite creators into wolf DNA to create dogs, the sort of goofy worldbuilding detail that I absolutely adore). None of these alien species have been previously mentioned, and so to some extent, this novel functions to widen the scope of the fictional universe, forming a more complex continuity by introducing threads that can and will reappear later on. Erek himself is positioned as a new ally for the group, able to feed them information and suggest future missions, another valuable plot engine now available for the sequels to draw upon.

Once the introductions are past, the main task here is to retrieve the latest K. A. Applegate macguffin, an extraterrestrial jewel which would enable the Yeerks to take over every computer on the planet. (Again: I love it.) There's a personal angle to the threat too, since Marco's dad has recently begun contracting with the company working on that project. And the action is great, with the gem held behind a security system that requires elaborate heist-movie shenanigans to bypass, including a fun new bat morph whose echolocation allows for a kind of vision that won't set off the light detectors.

What really elevates the book, however, is the Animorphs grappling with the pacifism of their metal friend and his people, both as an inherent moral position and as something they do or don't have the right to interfere with by providing the tool to overcome that programming and join in the fight against the parasitic invaders. Cassie, playing her customary role as conscience to the team, is particularly concerned throughout this discussion, to the point where I almost wish she were narrating instead, despite my enjoyment of the current protagonist's wisecracking. Of all the teens, she's by far the most aware of how much blood is on their hands, and of how the trajectory of this war is only making them more dangerously ruthless as time goes on. It's hard enough for her to sleep at night already, even without the extra weight of ending millennia of Chee nonviolence added to her soul.

As usual, this is heavy material for the middle-grade age of the intended audience -- not necessarily inappropriate, just uncommon -- and the traumatized robot weeping at the end is one of those images that has lingered at the back of my mind for decades now. It's probably a bit exposition-loaded overall, but it's an excellent expansion of the narrative canvas as we bring the first phase of the larger tale to a close.

[Content warning for PTSD, body horror, and gore.]
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pardis
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2015
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Great series
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Gabriel
5.0 out of 5 stars Spoiler Alert
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2020
Marco runs into his old friend Erek. He does not really care that much because he has other things to think about. An example for that is saving the world. But when Marco finds out that Erek hangs out with the Sharing. (The Sharing is a front organisation run by the Yeerks.) He decides to go for an investigation. Marco and Ax go on the investigation as a spider.
There are 5 main characters in this book: Jake, Marco, Rachel, Cassie and Tobias. Jake is the fearless leader. Marco likes to joke around. Cassie is the animal expert. Rachel is the serious one. There is another one and his name is Ax. Ax is an Andelite which is an alien.

My favourite part so far is when they figure out that Erek is an Android. And that Erek says that he isn’t working with the Yeerks (for whoever didn’t read Animorphs, Yeerk is a parasite that crawls into you through your ear and takes control of your body which the book also calls a controller).
I would recommend this book to people who like fantasy books because this book has a lot of different alien species. For example, Andelit, Yeerk, Chee and more that I don’t remember. If you want to start from this one, I would not suggest it because this one is the tenth one you should start from Animorphs: The Invasion.
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Loralei
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2020
I really appreciate Marco’s insights, and as we get further into the series they just continue to get better! Looking forward to more of these in the future!
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Alan Gilfoy
5.0 out of 5 stars Heavy stuff and the action keeps up
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2014
The concert stunt reminds me of the mouse stunt in Megamorphs #1 - Marco insists upon it, and another Animorph reluctantly goes along with it to protect him. I like how it incidentally obtained intel.

This continued the series' real animal facts subtheme well.

I know what's going on with Erek, but I figure the storyline would've played well to people new to the series. Based on just this book, it is a mystery what he was up to, including the twist that he's an anti-Yeerk infiltrator.

I'm a dog person, so I was all over the Pemalite-Chee-dog connection. That was great explanatory mythmaking for wolf domestication.

I remembered the crystal mission vaguely from when I first read the series years ago, so it was great to come back to it.

Obviously the Marco feels were strong in the family conversation, but my eye for canon details also noticed the part about how she changed about a year and a half before she disappeared.

To me, the peacefulness of the Pemalites and Chee seems like a tragic flaw, too much of a good thing, et cetera. The Animorphs have had nightmares before, but the part about how human memories fade and android memories don't addressed the PTSD issue more directly.

This all added to the series' "children's book? yeah right." vibe. However, I can see how the books are presenting such heavy stuff in a relatively youth friendly format.
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Rei
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read. Made me cry.
Reviewed in Canada on April 11, 2021
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Loving these not just for the nostalgia, but for the moral conversations. They deal with some decently heavy topics for YA books, and I appreciate that.
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