The Secret (Animorphs)

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The Secret

Cassie morphing into a wolf
Author K. A. Applegate
Cover artist Damon C. Torres
Country United States
Language English
Series Animorphs #9
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher Scholastic
Publication date December 1997
Media type Print
Pages 158 pp
Preceded by The Alien
Followed by The Android

The Secret is the ninth book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is narrated by Cassie.


[edit] Plot summary

Cassie and the Animorphs discover from Ax and Tobias that the Yeerks have set up a dummy logging company, called Dapsen Logging Company, in the woods. The Yeerks want to destroy the forest in order to eliminate the "Andalite bandits'" shelter. Cassie and her dad finds an injured skunk, hit by a Dracon beam in the fighting.

Since there is a good chance that the skunk had kits, Cassie decides to look for them. Tobias is able to tell her where the litter of kits are, having found five and eaten one. Cassie rescues them and the Animorphs take over tending the kits, with Tobias doing much of the skunk-sitting while the other Animorphs are in school. Marco ends up naming the skunk kits after The Ramones.

In the final showdown, the Yeerks capture Cassie, but she morphs into a skunk and sprays all of the Controllers and Visser Three. In return for telling the Yeerks how to get rid of the smell, Visser Three has to release the human he captured, who then votes against the fake company. They then tell the Yeerks that grape juice will remove the stink (instead of tomato juice), and Tobias later reports that a pool of grape juice was made for Visser Three to soak in. Due to the other controllers staying away from him, it is apparent that Visser Three hasn't completely gotten rid of the skunk smell, and in addition is a "lovely, attractive shade of purple," resembling the fur color of an Andalite female.

[edit] New Morphs

[edit] Trivia

  • This is the fourth book to feature a cover morph that was not acquired in the book. The Animorphs (except Tobias and Ax) acquired wolf morphs in the third book, The Encounter.
  • The cover quote is, "No place to run. No place to hide..."


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K. A. Applegate's Animorphs series
Main series:
1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 • 31 • 32 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 • 43 • 44 • 45 • 46 • 47 • 48 • 49–50 • 51 • 52 • 53 • 54
Megamorphs:
Chronicles:
Alternamorphs:
Animorphs:
Jake • Rachel • Cassie • Marco • Tobias • Ax • David • Auxiliary Animorphs
Secondary characters:
Aldrea • Alloran • Arbron • Crayak • Drode • Elfangor • Ellimist • Erek King • Toby Hamee • Visser One • Visser Three
Minor characters:
Species:
Andalite • Arn • Capasin • Chee • Gedd • Helmacron • Hork-Bajir • Howler • Iskoort • Ketran • Leeran • Mercora • Nartec • Nesk • Pemalite • Skrit Na • Taxxon • Veleek • Yeerk •Yoort Other species