The Underground

Pages: 164
Published: 1998
Language: English

The Animorphs discover a bizarre weakness in their alien enemies: instant oatmeal acts like a drug to the Yeerks, driving them into a frenzy. To exploit this flaw, the team must infiltrate the dangerous Yeerk pool deep underground. If they get caught, there is no way back to the surface, and Visser Three is waiting in the shadows.

Prose complexity: 1/10

Tense Adventurous Dark

Secret Identity Found Family Heist

Juvenile Middle Grade Science Fiction Children's Books Body Horror

Katherine Applegate

Katherine Alice Applegate is an American writer, best known as the author of the Animorphs, Remnants, Everworld and other book series (Animorphs was co-written with her husband, Michael Grant, under the joint pen name K.A. Applegate). She won the 2013 Newbery Medal for her children's novel The One and Only Ivan. Applegate's most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels. She won the Best New Children's Book Series Award in 1997 from Publishers Weekly. Her novel Home of the...