The Message (Animorphs)
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 Cassie morphing into a dolphin, 1st ed. cover |
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| Author | K. A. Applegate |
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| Illustrator | David B. Mattingly |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Animorphs #4 |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Scholastic |
| Released | 1 October 1996 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 160 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0590629808 |
| Preceded by | The Encounter |
| Followed by | The Predator |
The Message is the fourth book in the Animorphs series written by K. A. Applegate. This series was made into a TV show by Nickelodion in 1998 and ran for one year before being cancelled.
Each book in the series is told by a different Animorph. The Message is told by Cassie.
[edit] Plot summary
Cassie and Tobias start having strange dreams about a presence in the ocean, and Jake sees a news item on TV about debris that washed up on the beach. The Animorphs decide to go check it out, and acquire bottlenose dolphin morphs to do so.
While investigating the seabed, they save a whale from sharks, and Marco is nearly killed. The whale "speaks" to Cassie through song, telling her about a strange place of grass and trees under the ocean.
This place seems deep out in the ocean, so the Animorphs (with the exception of Tobias) morph to seagull and stow away on a container ship to get out there. They morph to dolphin again and discover the top half of an Andalite Dome Ship under the ocean. Entering it, they are captured by Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, who reveals himself as Elfangor's brother.
The Yeerks show up and drop depth charges at the sunken Dome Ship, so the Animorphs and Ax leave (Ax morphs a tiger shark). They are pursued by Visser Three in Mardrut morph, but he is chased off by a pod of whales. The whales give the Animorphs a lift back to shore.
Ax is recruited into the Animorphs, and lives in the woods near Cassie's farm.
[edit] Morphs
- Jake: bottlenose dolphin, seagull
- Rachel: bottlenose dolphin, seagull
- Cassie: squirrel ('Magilla'), bottlenose dolphin, seagull
- Marco: bottlenose dolphin, seagull
- Ax: tiger shark, human (mixture of the Animorphs' DNA)
- Visser Three: Madrut
[edit] Trivia
- The pod of dolphins at The Gardens were named after the characters in Friends.
