In case you don't know, Animorphs is a sci-fi series targeted mainly at elementary/middle school students about five kids who are given the power to change into animals by an alien in order to fight a secret invasion of Earth by other, mind-controlling aliens. I read it back when I was ten years old, and a few weeks ago I picked up the first book at the library for nostalgia's sake. I was totally surprised to find that, instead of being a children's series, this is one of the darkest, most mature handlings of war that I've ever read.
Seriously, there's a book where a 13-year-old kid wrestles with the decision of whether or not to kill his own family (who have been taken by the aliens) in order to save himself and his friends, who are the only hope humanity has, but is unable to when the time comes, so his friends lose faith in him and marginalize him because they don't think he's ruthless enough for this war.
So, the survey:
What other children's books/series (And I mean other than Harry Potter ) surprised you by being well-written, enjoyable, and mature?
Seriously, there's a book where a 13-year-old kid wrestles with the decision of whether or not to kill his own family (who have been taken by the aliens) in order to save himself and his friends, who are the only hope humanity has, but is unable to when the time comes, so his friends lose faith in him and marginalize him because they don't think he's ruthless enough for this war.
So, the survey:
What other children's books/series (And I mean other than Harry Potter ) surprised you by being well-written, enjoyable, and mature?
I'm reading the Animorphs series...
28/03/2010 10:21:11 AM
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It's an enjoyable series
28/03/2010 12:41:25 PM
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I think I was the one who started the discussion at wotmania.
28/03/2010 07:09:24 PM
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Naah, I took the ending as a clean cut ("spoiler," I guess)
28/03/2010 07:36:31 PM
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Re: Naah, I took the ending as a clean cut ("spoiler," I guess)
28/03/2010 09:54:19 PM
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I think that discussion made me reread them as well. Found a nice site for Animorphs ebooks.
29/03/2010 07:48:29 PM
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David himself was pretty horrifying at times
29/03/2010 08:35:13 PM
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Firefox can be dumb.
30/03/2010 03:11:11 AM
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nonsense,why would it lose its humor?
30/03/2010 03:48:14 PM
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He means that it wouldn't be the same kind of humor.
30/03/2010 03:51:52 PM
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true.
30/03/2010 04:58:40 PM
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Nah.... nothing can beat some of the Ax exchanges.
31/03/2010 01:37:02 AM
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None. Kids books suck. Except Animorphs. But Cassie was the Egwene of the series.
29/03/2010 03:56:34 AM
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Animorphs were pretty good.
29/03/2010 06:49:11 AM
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I really think I liked the backstory books the most, actually *NM*
29/03/2010 04:56:46 PM
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I loved the Animorphs.
29/03/2010 10:24:58 AM
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i saw Jake turn into a lion.
29/03/2010 04:57:25 PM
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Re: I wondered for a second what Jacob had been doing while I wasn't paying attention.
30/03/2010 05:03:38 PM
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I don't have anything to add other than Animorphs rocks, hard.
30/03/2010 06:08:07 AM
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