The Stranger (Animorphs)

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Animorphs Books
The Stranger
Narrator	Rachel
Number	#7
Release date	April 1997
Cover art	Rachel morphing into a grizzly bear
Cover quote	This time there may be no way out...
Author	K. A. Applegate
Illustrator	David B. Mattingly
Pages	163
Preceded by	The Capture
Followed by	Megamorphs #1: The Andalite's Gift

The Stranger is the seventh book in the Animorphs series.

[edit] Plot summary

The Animorphs try to infiltrate the Yeerk Pool again, but are caught in cockroach morph by a Taxxon. Suddenly time freezes and an all-powerful being who calls himself the Ellimist is revealed. The Ellimist tells them he wants to preserve part of Earth's beauty, along with some humans, because the Yeerks are going to win the war.

The Animorphs refuse his offer. Time unfreezes and they escape from the Yeerk Pool, but only because of a dropshaft Rachel noticed while time was frozen. Rachel suspects the Ellimist didn't want them to accept the offer at all; he simply wanted to show them an escape route.

The Ellimist appears again later and shows them a grim future in which the Yeerks have enslaved Earth. He makes his offer again, and this time the Animorphs relent and accept - but nothing happens.

Rachel realises that once again, the Ellimist was simply trying to show them something. In the vision of the future the Ellimist showed her, the Yeerks had demolished every skyscraper in their city except the EGS Tower. She deduces that the Kandrona must be up there, and gathers the rest of the Animorphs for a raid.

After a vicious battle just before dawn, they manage to take the tower and destroy the Kandrona. The Ellimist appears to them again, and confirms Rachel's suspicion that even he cannot tell the future, and humans might win the war yet.

[edit] New morphs

• Rachel: grizzly bear

[edit] Trivia

• This is the first book in which the narrator is the only person to acquire a new morph.
• The Ellimist was inspired by the Star Trek character Q, and the novel Flatland.