List of Animorphs books (31-40)

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Contents 1 Animorphs 31: The Conspiracy 2 Animorphs 32: The Separation 3 Animorphs 33: The Illusion 4 Animorphs 34: The Prophecy 5 Animorphs 35: The Proposal 6 Animorphs 36: The Mutation 7 Animorphs 37: The Weakness 8 Animorphs 38: The Arrival 9 Animorphs 39: The Hidden 10 Animorphs 40: The Other

[edit] Animorphs 31: The Conspiracy

• Copyright date: 1999
• Number of pages: 139
• Cover art: Jake morphs into a peregrine falcon.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Cover quote: When they say, "It's all in your head," believe it...
• Narrator: Jake

Jake's dad and brother Tom have left for a meeting of the Sharing, where Tom may force their dad into involuntary Yeerk infestation. Jake must save his father, but for the first time, his quick thinking tactical mind freezes up... with everything at stake.

[edit] Animorphs 32: The Separation

• Copyright date: 1999
• Number of pages: 158
• Cover art: Rachel morphs into a starfish.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Cover quote: Everything changes. But not quite like this...
• Narrator: Rachel
• New Morphs: Rachel - Starfish

When at the beach, Rachel's earring falls into a tide pool. She morphs a starfish to get it out. Unfortunately, after she does this she gets chopped in half. Both halves demorph and there are now two Rachels. They have different personalities. "Mean" Rachel is very violent, and aggressive. She is very concerned with "weakness". At one point she tries to kill Marco and Jake and take control of the Animorphs. Also she is incapable of making plans for the future. "Nice" Rachel is very passive and easily frightened. She is too scared to do any morphing, although she is good at making plans. Jake convinces Nice Rachel to come with him to follow a Yeerk truck. It turns out to be a trap and Jake and Nice Rachel are put in boxes to await the arrival of Visser 3. Mean Rachel follows them in an attempt to kill Jake and Nice Rachel. Jake pretends to be dead, forcing Mean and Nice Rachel to work together in order to escape the trap. Nice Rachel makes the plan and Mean Rachel actually does it. After they escape safely, Nice and Mean Rachel finally realise that they need to be together to work well and Erek King helps make them back into one whole Rachel again.

[edit] Animorphs 33: The Illusion

• Copyright date: 1999
• Number of pages: 156
• Cover art: Tobias (red-tailed hawk) morphs into an Andalite.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Cover quote: Change happens. Whether we like it or not...
• Narrator: Tobias
• New Morphs: Tobias- Andalite

The Yeerks have finished their anti-morphing ray and want to test it. Tobias comes up with a plan to trick the Yeerks into thinking that it doesn't work; if they capture him, they will try to use it on his hawk form, but hawk is his true form now. Tobias acquires Ax and then gets captured by the Yeerks. They try to demorph him unsuccessfully since he is already demorphed. He is then tortured for a while by the sadistic Taylor before the other Animorphs come and rescue him.

[edit] Animorphs 34: The Prophecy

• Copyright date: 1999
• Number of pages: 141
• Cover art: Cassie morphs into a Hork-Bajir.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Cover quote: What you don't know can't hurt you. Except for the Yeerks...
• Art Direction/Design: Karen Hudson
• Narrator: Cassie
• New Morphs: All except Tobias and Rachel - Hork-Bajir

An Arn has appeared on Earth with a plan to free the Hork-Bajir. The Animorphs go to the Hork-Bajir homeworld to locate and retrieve a stash of weapons Aldrea stored there, guided by Aldrea's ixcila- an electronic copy of her personality which is inhabiting Cassie.

[edit] Animorphs 35: The Proposal

• Copyright date: 1999
• Number of pages: 147
• Cover art: Marco morphs into a poodle.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Cover quote: What's on your mind...?
• Art Direction/Design: Karen Hudson
• Narrator: Marco
• New Morphs: Marco - Poodle, All except Tobias - Cocaktiel

Marco's mother, the host to Visser One, is revealed to have survived the events of book 30. Marco's father, still believing her dead from the "boating accident" several years earlier, marries Nora, Marco's math teacher. The stress from his father's actions cause Marco's morphs to go haywire, the results from his morphs are (in order of appearance): an osprey crossed with a lobster, a trout with the arms of a gorilla, a wolf spider crossed with a skunk, (A "Skider" or "Spunk" as Marco called that one), and finally a poodle and a polar bear (a Poo-Bear as Marco called it). The Yeerks try to use a popular TV Icon nammed William Roger Tennant to try and persuade people to join The Sharing, but the Animorphs expose him on national TV when he is terrorising Marco (in poodle/polar bear morph) which ruins Tennant.

[edit] Animorphs 36: The Mutation

• Copyright date: 1999
• Number of pages: 142
• Cover art: Jake morphs into an orca.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Cover quote: You won't even get the chance to change your mind...
• Art Direction/Design: Karen Hudson
• Narrator: Jake
• New Morphs: Tobias - Nartec, All - Killer Whale

While using their aquatic morphs to chase the Yeerks' new Sea Blade, which was after the Pemalite ship, the Animorphs and Ax find themselves beached inside an underwater cavern. The cavern seems to be littered, however, with several different types of air and sea craft, with what appears to be human statues inside. Further inspection by Cassie and Ax reveals that these people were real, and were killed and stuffed for preservation. While attempting to escape and locate Visser Three, whose ship was taken by a strange, humanoid aquatic species, Jake, Cassie, Ax, Rachel, and Marco, all in their natural forms, are captured by these life-forms, who reveal themselves as Nartec. (Tobias was on lookout above, and therefore was not captured.) The Nartec queen explains that they once were humans who lived above water, and when their city sunk, they began to adapt to underwater life. Ax realizes that radioactivity is what aided their ability to evolve so quickly. He also surmises that the Nartec have inbred for years, except for possible breeding with their captives prior to killing them, so their genetic code is breaking down. After the Nartec queen makes it clear that she intends to "preserve" the Animorphs, she permits them to do some sightseeing, but warns them not to try and escape.

Of course, the Animorphs have no interest in being killed, stuffed, and added to a collection, so they plan to locate Tobias, figure out where Visser Three is hiding, and capture the Sea Blade to escape. However, their plans are foiled by a Nartec ambush from the water, and the Animorphs are taken to an operating room of sorts to be "preserved." Given a mind-numbing agent, Jake begins to slip away, when he notices a Nartec suddenly attacking the other Nartecs in the room and wiping them out. The rogue Nartec demorphs into a Red-Tailed Hawk, Tobias, and aids the others in escaping. The Animorphs climb on board the Sea Blade, only to be challenged by hoards of Nartec, wielding weapons ranging from spears and clubs, to automatic rifles and machine guns. While the Animorphs, in their standard combat morphs, had no difficulty attacking the Nartec and holding them at bay for a while, they began to be worn down by sheer force of numbers. Finally they struck a reluctant alliance with Visser Three, who guided them in activating the Sea Blade and escaping. Under Jake's orders, Marco, whose Gorilla morph was gutted by a sword, opened the hatch to the Sea Blade, and the Animorphs swam to the surface. Visser Three survived as well, though separated from the Animorphs.

[edit] Animorphs 37: The Weakness

• Copyright date: 1999
• Number of pages: 129
• Cover art: Rachel morphs into a cheetah.
• Cover quote: Jake's not around. Who will take his place?
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Art Direction/Design: Karen Hudson
• Narrator: Rachel
• New Morphs: All except Jake - Cheetah

When Jake goes on vacation, Rachel becomes leader of the Animorphs (much to Marco's distaste). They learn that good ole Andalite-Controller is being inspected by a Yeerk in a Garatron, a superhumanly-speedy Andalite-like creature. They, naturally, attempt to discredit Visser Three in front of the Inspector, who represents the Council of Thirteen, by attack various known-Controller-operated or -owned businesses.

The first attack, at a news station, they go in without and recon, as suggested by Marco. Rachel notices a tour group passing by during their attack and learns later with Cassie, by watching a store's televison, that an old man with a heart condition dies of a cardiac arrest during the attack on the station.

Her recklessness, however, almost kills Cassie. But, with some encouragement from Marco, of all people, Rachel lead a rescue mission where Marco, in cobra morph, poisons the Inspector, who attacks after some careful prodding by the Visser Three. With its enhanced metabolism, the effects of the poison rapidly take its toil on the Garatron, killing it. Afterward, Rachel talks to Jake, who returned home after all this.

[edit] Animorphs 38: The Arrival

• Copyright date: 2000
• Number of pages: 148
• Cover art: Ax morphs into a northern harrier.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Art Direction/Design: Karen Hudson
• Narrator: Ax
• New Morphs: Estrid - Crow, Human, Rabbit Arbat - Human

Tobias and Ax go to the food court where they discover that some other Andalites have arrived, having been sent to Earth on a mission to assassinate Visser Three. Ax develops an interest in a young female Andalite on the team, but the stress of the new situation apparently causes the Animorphs to split up, tired of the constant struggle. However, it is revealed to be a plan to find out more about the Andalites; in reality, they are there to introduce a virus to the Yeerk pool that will damage the Yeerks, despite the fact that such a virus could mutate to hurt humans as well. At the last minute, they manage to stop the virus being introduced, and the Andalites depart.

[edit] Animorphs 39: The Hidden

• Copyright date: 2000
• Number of pages: 121
• Cover art: Cassie morphs into a Cape Buffalo.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Art Direction/Design: Karen Hudson/Usrula Albano
• Narrator: Cassie
• New Morphs: Cassie- Cape Buffalo, Buffa-Human- Human(Chapman),Andalite(Alloran), Ant- Human(Cassie)

The Yeerks find a way to track the blue box. Cassie protects the box by constantly moving it. The device used to track the box is eventually destroyed.

[edit] Animorphs 40: The Other

• Copyright date: 2000
• Number of pages: 130
• Cover art: Marco morphs into a honeybee.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Art Direction/Design: Karen Hudson/Ursula Albano
• Narrator: Marco

The Animorphs meet other survivors of Elfangor's Dome Ship, the GalaxyTree. One Andalite called Gafinilan-Estrif-Valad suffers from an genetic disease called Soola's Disease while the other, Mertil-Iscar-Elmand, is crippled, or a vecol, as Ax puts it.

Gafinilan attacks Marco when gets a little too close to the human home he owns, while Ax comes to his defense. Both enter his home and Gafinilan asks Ax to meet his prince, not realizing Ax's "prince" is human. Jake decides that he will come to call.

One thing leads to another, and the Animorphs manage to convince Gafinilan to tell the truth. Then they go off to rescue Mertil from Visser Three, who didn't want to infest an Andalite vecol.

Morphs: Marco, Tobias, Cassie, and Rachel acquire honeybees

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