List of Animorphs books (51-54, Chronicles)

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Contents 1 Animorphs 51: The Absolute 2 Animorphs 52: The Sacrifice 3 Animorphs 53: The Answer 4 Animorphs 54: The Beginning 5 The Andalite Chronicles 6 The Hork-Bajir Chronicles 7 Visser 8 The Ellimist Chronicles

[edit] Animorphs 51: The Absolute

• Copyright date: 2001
• Number of pages: 149
• Cover art: Marco morphs into a mallard.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Art Direction/Design: Karen Hudson/Ursula Albano
• Narrator: Marco
• New morphs: Marco, Tobias, and Ax - Mallard Duck, Marco - Human (state Governor)

The Animorphs discover that the Yeerks are planning on infesting the entire national guard in their state. Marco, Tobias, and Ax are sent to the capitol to meet with the governor and try to stop the deployment. The captitol is over 200 miles away so they need to acquire morphs capable of traveling long distances. When they meet the governor, her husband alerts the Yeerks. Marco, Tobias, and Ax and the governor race a long distance while being pursued by the Yeerks. Eventually they end up in the Governor's mansion and explain the situation to her. A large number of military vehicles come, so Marco morphs the governor and lets himself get captured by the Yeerks, to trick them into leaving. At the end, the Governor issues a warning about the Yeerk invasion.

[edit] Animorphs 52: The Sacrifice

• Copyright date: 2001
• Number of pages: 151
• Cover art: Ax morphs into a raccoon.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Art Direction/Design: Karen Hudson/Ursula Albano
• Narrator: Ax
• New Morphs: Ax- Raccoon

After Rachel, Ax and James take a reconnaissance flight, they note that there is abundant activity; the Yeerks seem to be driving people into the subways. After a swift but brutal investigation, they relay their report to the others: the subway tunnels have been rerouted to the Yeerk Pool to provide mass infestation. The group immediately rally and develop a plan, but it is to be a risky one, in which the Yeerk pool is to be destroyed for good. Ax, however, is torn. Cassie reveals that it was she who allowed the blue box to be taken, and Ax now nurses a hatred born of betrayal for her. He communicates with the Andalite High Command in secret, who inform him not to destroy the Yeerk Pool, as they wish the bulk of the Yeerk Empire to land on Earth, so the Andalites can then 'quarantine' the planet. But Ax eventually disobeys them, allowing the Animorph plan to go ahead. Using the free Hork-Bajir, their parents and the auxiliary Animorphs in this one-shot-only plan, the group stages an elaborate offensive, during which Ax realises he does not truly hate Cassie. Without revealing his communication with the Andalite High Command, Ax, with Cassie and Marco in tow, takes a train loaded with several high-powered explosives into the pool itself. Visser One attempts to halt the plan, but only too late. WIth only a few minutes to spare, the trio warn everyone, friend and foe, of the impending danger, and a mad rush for the exit ensues, as the Yeerk Pool explodes.

[edit] Animorphs 53: The Answer

[edit] Animorphs 54: The Beginning

[edit] The Andalite Chronicles

• Copyright date: 1997
• Cover Art: Elfangor
• Number of pages: 326
• New Morphs: Arbron and Elfangor- Taxxon

Takes place before and leading up to the events in The Invasion. It is narrated by Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, or, as he is later known, Prince Elfangor. It begins with him uploading his memory into the computer before facing Visser Three at the abandoned construction site. The rest of the book is then a flashback of Elfangor's personal history, beginning with him as an Aristh, a warrior in training, and ending with him at the construction site.

Elfangor and his fellow aristh Arbron rescued two humans from the Skrit Na: Loren and Hedrick Chapman. They were assigned to return them to Earth under the leadership of a disgraced War-Prince, Alloran-Semitur-Corrass. However, upon realizing the Skrit Na were in possession of the mythical Time Matrix, they were forced to go after it. Arbron became trapped as a Taxxon, and Elfangor became responsible for Alloran's infestation. Eventually, Elfangor, Alloran and the Yeerk controlling him, and the humans fell into a black hole. They were forced to use the Time Matrix to escape, which took them to a fragmented universe created from Elfangor, Loren, and the Yeerk (now Visser Thirty-Two)'s memories. Elfangor and Loren were able to escape to Earth, where he permanently morphed a human and stayed in that form. He married Loren some time later, but just before she gave birth to Tobias, the Ellimist repaired Elfangor's "timeline" and returned him to the Andalite homeworld. Elfangor went on to become a great Andalite hero, leading to the events of the first Animorphs book.

[edit] The Hork-Bajir Chronicles

• Copyright date: 1998
• Number of pages: 206
• New morphs: Aldrea- Hork-Bajir(Delf Hajoot), chadoo
• Narrator: Tobias, Dak Hamee, Aldrea-Iskillion-Falan, and Esplin 9466

Jara Hamee, the first member of the free Hork-Bajir colony, tells Tobias a story of how the Yeerks tried to enslave the Hork-Bajir, and how Aldrea, an Andalite, tried to help the Hork-Bajir.

[edit] Visser

[edit] The Ellimist Chronicles

• Copyright date: 2000
• Number of pages: 200
• Cover artist: Romas Kualis
• Art Direction/Design: Karen Hudson/Ursula Albano
• Narrator: The Ellimist

As an unidentified Animorph (who in the final book is revealed to be Rachel) lies on the brink of death, the Ellimist appears and recounts the his origins as Azure Level, Seven Spar, Extension Two, Down-Messenger, Forty-One (Toomin) the Ketran and his tranfiguration into the Ellimist as a final request to the dying Animorph. The Ketran race was virtually extinguished by the Capasins, who had seen images of violent virtual Ketran games that had been broadcast into space and mistaked them for violent threats. Toomin/Ellimist was one of the few survivors, eventually becoming a blending of minds. He visited the Andalite home planet as that species was beginning to evolve, and influenced them as well as many others. He then was physically destroyed by Crayak. They set up their millennia-spanning "game" then, a battle that would influence the fates of many species. Rachel does inevitably die at the end.

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