SUMMARY

Morphing is certainly more fun than Sega -- you can soar as an eagle and walk as a cat. But being an ANIMORPH is by no means just fun and games. Rachel knew better than anyone. One of her best friends, Melissa, is acting very strange. And it looks like Melissa's dad, who is also the school's Assistant Principal, may be connected to evil aliens. Rachel can't tell Melissa what the ANIMORPHS have learned, but Melissa doesn't seem interested in talking to Rachel these days anyway. Could Melissa be one of "them?" With the help of Jake, Cassie, Tobias and Marco, Rachel plans to enter her friend's house as a cat, intent on unlocking the secrets from within. If only Rachel could keep her mind off mice...

Released: June 1996 Pages: 175 Cover Art by Tim O'Brien Download eBook #2: The Visitor (Courtesy of RAF)

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TRIVIA

Ax was originally supposed to show up in this book. However, once it became certain that Animorphs was going to turn out to be a long running series, K.A. delayed his appearance to the 4th book. The communication device that Chapman uses in his home to talk to Visser Three in this book is referred back to again in #5: The Predator when Ax is looking for a Z-Space Transponder, which is the only thing he can't buy at the local Radio Shack to make his communicator. ANIBASE: Though Katherine Applegate doesn't have any cats named Fluffer McKitty, she does have two cats with unusual names: Rabbit, who she calls a "sweet kitty", and Dick the Evil Foot-biting Cat, who is, well, an evil foot-biting cat. She also has a golden retriever, named Maisy after the mouse created by children's book author/illustrator Lucy Cousins. While all of the regular numerical Animorph book covers were made by David B. Mattingly, the first two books were created by Peter Bollinger (#1) and Tim O'Brien (#2). Also interesting to note is that the models didn't begin to show up in full body shots until David B. Mattingly started doing them with #3, where they would show up in full loosely clothed outfits (conflicting with what the books told us about the Animorphs never being able to wear anything past skintight clothes in order to morph with them). This was David B. Mattingly's response: "I know that having the characters morph with shoes and loose clothing is inaccurate to the books, but Scholastic and I preferred depicting the characters in realistic everyday clothing, rather than "morphing outfits." It makes the images more interesting, since the best part of the morphs artistically is when there is a complex blend of colors and fabric folds."

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