Due to the strange writing on the scrap, the kids are almost sure that it was a remnant from a crashed Andalite spaceship. Jake has a news clip showing a man who discovered a piece of scrap metal that washed ashore. They tell the other members of their group - Jake, the leader, Marco, and Rachel - about their shared visions. When they are in a morphed state, they communicate telepathically or as they call it through thought-speak.Ĭassie and Tobias have both been having dreams about someone in distress calling to them for help from the sea. After morphing into the hawk, he was unable to morph back to his human form. Tobias is a human locked in the body of a red-tailed hawk. Tobias tells Cassie that he was ready to eat her until he realized that she had morphed into the squirrel. The fox chases Cassie but she is saved when Tobias, another member of the Animorphs, swoops down on him and chases him away. The guilty party, a fox enters the barn and is spooked with Cassie as a squirrel jumps down from the rafters. Her father is the head vet at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic and her mother is a vet at the zoo at The Gardens. She wants to be small enough to hide and watch for the predator who has been coming into the barn on her family's farm at night and stealing birds that she and her father have been trying to nurse back to health.Ĭassie comes from a family of animal lovers. The story begins with the protagonist, Cassie, who is morphing herself into a squirrel.

Applegate is the story of five friends who are Animorphs or humans who can take on the form of any animal that they have DNA mapping for.

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