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The Journey (Animorphs #42) Kindle Edition
- Reading age9 - 12 years
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level4 - 7
- Lexile measure490L
- PublisherScholastic Inc.
- Publication dateAugust 29, 2017
- ISBN-13978-0439115162
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- ASIN : B074PX7R3V
- Publisher : Scholastic Inc. (August 29, 2017)
- Publication date : August 29, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 4553 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 118 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #270,423 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author
#1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Applegate has written many books for young readers, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal.
Katherine’s picture books include THE BUFFALO STORM, illustrated by Jan Ormerod (Clarion Books); THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF IVAN, THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Clarion Books); and SOMETIMES YOU FLY, illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Clarion Books).
She’s written two early chapter series for young readers: ROSCOE RILEY RULES, a seven-book series illustrated by Brian Biggs (HarperCollins); and DOGGO AND PUPPER, a three-book series illustrated by Charlie Alder (Feiwel & Friends).
Books for middle-grade readers include HOME OF THE BRAVE (Feiwel & Friends); THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, illustrated by Patricia Castelao (HarperCollins); THE ONE AND ONLY BOB, illustrated by Patricia Castelao (HarperCollins); the ENDLING trilogy (HarperCollins); CRENSHAW (Feiwel & Friends); WISHTREE (Feiwel & Friends); and WILLODEEN (Feiwel & Friends).
With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co-wrote ANIMORPHS, a long-running series that has sold over 35 million books worldwide. They also wrote two other series, REMNANTS and EVERWORLD, and a young adult novel, EVE AND ADAM (Feiwel & Friends.)
Katherine’s work has been translated into dozens of languages, and her books have won accolades including the Christopher Medal, the Golden Kite Award, the Bank Street Josette Frank Award, the California Book Award Gold Medal, the Crystal Kite Award, the Green Earth Book Honor Award, the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award, and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Many of her works have appeared on state master lists, Best of the Year lists, and Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and New York Times bestseller lists.
THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN was made into a Disney movie starring Brian Cranston, Sam Rockwell, and Angelina Jolie.
Katherine lives in California, with her family and assorted pets. She is represented by Elena Giovinazzo at Pippin Properties, Inc.
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Notable moments and inconsistencies:
This book is ghostwritten by Emily Costello.
At one point a Controller shoots Rachel with a Dracon beam while she's in elephant morph. The lowest setting can knock out a human but probably wouldn't do anything but annoy the elephant, which is what happened. Question is, why didn't the Controller have the Dracon beam on a higher setting? They apparently go up high enough to actually vaporize any living thing, but even if the Controller didn't want to kill Rachel (so they could infest her and use her morphing ability), it seems he could have used a stronger setting and would know better than not to.
At one point the Helmacrons wish death on "the air-breathing alien," but no one seems to think this is significant. Then later everyone's mystified as to why they stepped into Marco's bloodstream if they wouldn't be able to breathe in there. Clearly it was a clue that they don't breathe air, but no one picked up on it.
An opening quotation mark was missing when someone was asking how they can go after a bunch of mushrooms.
After Marco has supposedly died in cockroach morph of a Helmacron blast, Rachel suggests tunneling into the lungs, and when they shoot through some air comes out and they acknowledge getting into the lungs. Roaches don't have lungs.
It seems odd that the Animorphs acknowledge the Helmacrons' possibility of aligning with the Yeerks or giving the Yeerks information about them, but then they let these blatantly untrustworthy creatures just charge up their ship and leave.
In a previous book, morphing did not rid any of the Animorphs of their illness, which was plot-relevant because the sickness they suffered from downed everyone on the team except Cassie, requiring her to do missions herself. But in this book, Marco morphing in and out of roach morph cured him of rabies. It could be that because the illness was some kind of alien illness they all caught from Ax, it behaves differently than human illnesses, or because rabies is viral and not bacterial, but this could be an inconsistency.
It's alarming that Marco could get rabies from a domesticated dog that was living as someone's pet.
No attempt was ever made to follow up on the kid who took the Animorphs' picture. Sure the camera was the evidence, but it would have made some sense to look into there being someone who had witnessed their human forms morphing.
I'm extremely underwhelmed by this one. If I could get the time I invested in this back I would, believe me.
But before I trash this any more, let's get into why this book was such a stinker.
In this novel, Rachel/Marco share the spotlight in another Helmacron adventure. After a successful mission against the Yeerks, our animal-morphing friends go back to Cassie's barn when they are interrupted by the Helmacrons. Despite being thwarted, they are back and demanding the morphing cube Elfangor gave them. Through some more strange events, the Helmacrons end up in Marco's nose and the Animorphs give chase after using the shrinking ray, worried about his safety.
Alright, so not very much worked for me at all this time.
The strongest part was probably the first chapter that had nothing to do with the Helmacrons. The Animorphs were on a mission to stop mass production of Kandrona ray generators. Now that should've been the focus of this book! But alas, it wasn't.
The plot was flimsy at best. Obviously this journey is all about preventing the Helmacrons from hurting Marco internally, but it was disappointing given the state of the Yeerk invasion. The whole thing just felt like a bunch of filler and didn't evoke any emotion from me at all. Why even bother with this pointless side adventure?
There's a minimally-interesting side plot with Marco once the Animorphs are inside him, but the logic of it made no sense. Marco clearly had an opportunity to get what he was questing after but made up an excuse. Okayyy...
The characters had no progression and like I just mentioned, logic felt like a second thought.
Overall, I just really want to forget this disappointing experience and move on. Here's hoping the next one won't be as bad!
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今回は、Marco以外の全員が小さくなって、Marcoの身体の中に入ります。
なかなか無理のある設定で、Marcoの行動もめちゃくちゃ不自然でしたが、それはMarcoが犬にかまれて気がおかしくなりつつあったからなんて、すごいオチがついてます。それなりに勉強になりました。(臓器の名前とか)