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Summary: Redtailed Approves
Review: A delightful find. This is the third book in the young adult/teen series "Animorphs" in which the character Tobias permanently becomes a Red-tailed Hawk. The Animorphs story is generally very good and the characters interesting and rich. The author manages to write about the animal aspects in a believable way. I usually find transformation and shapeshifting stories to have story lines that make the whole point of transformation become lost. Applegate keeps the adventure intact by being descriptive, entertaining, and involving. This series is a must-read for those who enjoy animals, shapeshifting, and adventure.
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Summary: Redtailed Approves
Review: A delightful find. This is the third book in the young adult/teen series "Animorphs" in which the character Tobias permanently becomes a Red-tailed Hawk. The Animorphs story is generally very good and the characters interesting and rich. The author manages to write about the animal aspects in a believable way. I usually find transformation and shapeshifting stories to have story lines that make the whole point of transformation become lost. Applegate keeps the adventure intact by being descriptive, entertaining, and involving. This series is a must-read for those who enjoy animals, shapeshifting, and adventure.
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Summary: The invasion continues; Tobias becomes more and more a hawk
Review: In the third installment of the bestselling ANIMORPHS series, Tobias, who has been trapped in the body of red-tailed hawk since he lost track of time during a previous mission, begins to feel like he's losing is human side while the team investigates a mysterious, cloaked Yeerk ship. For sequel see "The Message."
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Summary: A very interesting book
Review: In this book, Tobias has been trapped in hawk morph since book 1. He dicovers that the Blade ship needs to refuel with water and air every so often, so the other Animorphs morph Trout and try to destroy the ship. This is a great book.
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Summary: Animorphs The Close Encounter
Review: This book is interesting for kids that like their mind wonder and imagine how it feels transform into an animal. Also, this book is for kids that like to read adventure. This book is about a group of kid that can transform into diffrent kind of animals, but they cant stay to long into an animal or they will stay stuck into that animal and they cant go back into being a human and they have to act like an animal and think like an animal so that they can survive and live long. Also they have to to eat real live animals, and watch out for predetors that will eat them. It also lets know kids that its ok to be diffrent than others that every kid is unique in thier own way.
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Summary: Exalting
Review: This is the best book I have read in all my 12 years. K. A. Applegate has an amazing power to capture a reader's heart and mind and draw it further into the book . . . then MORPH a bird and fly away, heart in her heart, mind in her mind. Tobias's twisted life has taken quite a turn in the last couple of weeks. He and his friends meet an alien who gives them the power to morph, then is murdered by the force he is fighting. Morphing is a process of changing from human to animal. MORPHING into the body of an animal. Animorph. There is a problem, morphing has a downside . . . stay in a morph for 2 hours, and you stay forever. Tobias had trouble with getting out of his red-tailed hawk morph for the deadline . . . and now will never get out again. . . This entrancing book takes you into another world, a world of fear and love, joy and pain, power and total helplessness. It takes you through all points of being trapped in another body, from flying on your own wings and looking at your friends from above, to the feeling of loneliness at being the only of your kind who can think like a human. When human nature and animal instinct cross, what do you get? Both the frightening ability to kill a rodent and the power to fly on your own wings, the sunlight on your back powering the thermal on which you are soaring. Says Tobias: "So be happy for me, and all who fly free!"
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Summary: It Made Me Cry......
Review: This is the best book I have read in my life,it was sweet,sad,touching,adventurous,invigorating,and it made me laugh,it made me cry,it made me woory,and it made me hope.....Like Tobias said:"Be happy for me,and all who fly free..."That is the ultimate statment,just think about it....It will make you wonder,dream,worry,laugh,cry,and it will make you fly free...................
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Summary: A very interesting book
Review: This was the book I actually began with, and what got me hooked into the Animorphs from start to finish. Because other reviewers kindly give the general plot before I take up the keyboard, I'm adding my own thoughts from different perspectives. This is the first book from Tobias' viewpoint, and where most kids/teens have a multitude of problems they face in the every day world, he has an entirely new set. Yet the book manages to keep him very much someone I believe everyone can identify with in some way. Who hasn't had some place in their life where they felt they utterly did not and could not fit in, even if only for a short time? Tobias is the ultimate example of that, as his human mind and heart are trapped inside the body of a bird of prey. That same boy doesn't want to take life, even to live himself, in spite of the hawk's instincts. What happens when, like the "First Comers" of Elfquest (reference to Richard and Wendy Pini's series) this gentle, civilized boy is forced back in time, to directly kill what he needs to eat and survive. Mankind once was forced to do so, but turning back the clock is shown to be properly disturbing in this book. It's a problem I would certainly hope no reader would ever have to face, but the story itself can easily reach whoever is reading it by the emotional upheaval which is well written out by Applegate. There is also insight to "do I feel sorry for myself and give up?" or "Do I fight this, and if so, how?" Those are also both very easy issues to relate to for any reader. Although the problems are vastly different, do we give up, or do we make the best of what we have and continue? All while these questions, and many others, are being faced, this book is a roller-coaster ride of action from the first chapter to the ending. Some of the Animorphs have a kind of "template" to them, starting in one way, telling the story, and ending a certain way. This doesn't distract from them, however, nor make them overly predictable. A beautifully written story with a twist and very memorable close. It truly does inspire us all to "fly free" in our imaginations, leaves us with a story of the courage not to give up, and just a touch of bitter sweetness. As always, it's also a very interesting way of inspiring interest in the birds of prey of our world. There was one minor inconsistency in this one, where Marco morphed a bald eagle instead of an Osprey. Throughout the entire series, I've only found two such "wrinkles." The other was in the first book where the Animorphs could communicate telepathically even when one was human, it only took one to be in morph - not both as would later be established. Considering the length of the run, however, I tip my hat to Ms. Applegate for that being the only ones.
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Summary: It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Tobias...
Review: Tobias isn't like the other Animorphs. When they're done fighting Yeerks or flying through the sky, they just morph back from their animal bodies to their regular bodies. But Tobias stayed in hawk morph for longer than two hours. Now, he's going to be stuck as a hawk forever. Tobias is trying to deal with this pain, but nothing can make him feel better about it. Especially when he starts to feel attracted to a female hawk--even though he's a human on the inside.
Jake, Rachel, Cassie, and Marco are trying to help him get used to life as a hawk. But they're busy worrying about a gigantic Yeerk ship, and a new secret discovered--the Yeerks need lots of water from Earth for them all to survive. The kids use this information to morph fish and get inside the Yeerk ship. But when they get trapped, it's up to Tobias to save them--even though he's not human.
THE ENCOUNTER is the first Tobias book, and Tobias books are one of the best of the Animorphs. I thought that K.A. Applegate described Tobias's struggle through life as a hawk very well. The only problem that I had with this book was that it was a little boring. The only real action of the book was towards the end. But it's a good-read for Animorphs fans, and a must-read for all Tobias fans.
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Summary: tobias
Review: Toby stays in his morph and now turns into a hawk. A nice animal. Wonder if he will ever get a chance to be a human again?
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