The Resistance

Animorphs, Book 47

By: K.A. Applegate

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Mark Bramhall

The Animorphs have to make the most important decision they've ever faced: Do they continue to fight the Yeerks in secret, or is it time to let everyone know there's a resistance? That the Animorphs exist and Earth does stand a small chance against the invasion.

Jake knows that either choice is a major one, not something that a kid should be responsible for. But he's getting tired of the pressure. Even though he realizes his friends need him to be strong, he doesn't feel that way. In fact, he feels just the opposite. And Jake knows if he starts to lose it, the Animorphs are done...

©2000 Katherine Applegate (P)2023 Scholastic Inc

Powerful. Not Just For Kids.

I have loved the Animorphs books since they came out when I was in the 5th grade. I’m almost 40 now. These books handle topics that hit hard; death, violence, morality, divorce, stress, and the mental strain of dealing with it all. They were the first books that I read that showed that kids have every bit as much psychological strain as adults. Maybe even more so since kids don’t have the experience to tell them that they’ll get through it, as Jake’s mom points out in an earlier book. This book is masterful in how it shows the shift from subtle invasion to all-out war and juxtaposes it against the Civil War battle parallel. The narrator for the Civil War chapters is so good, and as a previous review states, makes us feel as if we’re reading a gritty historical novel.
It’s like in the Harry Potter series that started out with more of a child audience then as Harry grows and matures so do the books. And it’s only right that the big shift is on a Jake book.

This series has no right to be this good

I remember reading this book out of order a decade or so ago, and still have it in fact. I remember the beaver dam idea, and that's about it. I'm so thrilled to be rediscovering this amazing series after so long, it's truly one of the best I've ever read.
The alternate chapters set in the Civil War were, in a word, haunting. Seriously, the writing was one thing, but the reader for them was fantastic, truly masterful. It felt like I was listening to a realistic, gritty historic piece, not a book-a-month "kids series" about animals and aliens.
Animorphs, as it always has, has no right to be this good.

Oh my

This suddenly doesn’t feel like a children’s series anymore. And it shouldn’t, their war is so believably serious. I’m heartbroken for these kids. What next?