I came across this book when I last visited the Library. The cover had a picture of a girl changing into a cat. This immediately captured my eyes so I picked the book up, flipped through it and read a short segment of the book. It is about a girl who was changing into a cat. Instead of feeling smaller she described it as her feeling much stronger as though all her strength was complied in that small body. It also described her fear when a huge eagle appeared causing her to gain all her energy to pounce high above to attack the incoming trespasser.
 

 After reading this segment I realised that the author had imagined herself in the position of the girl who is changing into a cat. The author had analysed her points, made up beautiful phrases and formed sentences systematically making it very exciting. So I borrowed the book, brought it home and began to read it.

 The book revolves around Jake, Rachael, Marco, Cassie and Tobias five ordinary kids, well... they were ordinary kids until they met a dying Andalite warrior, Andalites are aliens who have the power to change into other creatures by acquiring the creatures DNA or blood strands, amazing isn’t it! Well, the Andalite gives this power to this group of teens and instructs them to use the power to defeat the Yeerks in their battle to save mankind. The yeerks are slug like creatures that squeeze into the brains of animals and take control of them unlike the andalites who make a sample of the original animal. The yeerks are ruled by Visser Three. Visser Three is the only yeerk that has succeeded in controlling an Andalite body, in the process gaining the power to morph. The story also involves Mr and Mrs. Chapman, both human controllers and their daughter Melissa Chapman.

 In the last book the Animorphs invaded a yeerk base when Tobias got trapped in an eagle morph because he had remained in it for more than two hours causing him to lose the power to morph leaving him an eagle for life. In this book they decide to track down the human controller Chapman to find the new base. After thinking of many ways to find the truth they come across a picture of Melissa Chapman’s daughter and her pet. A tomcat.

 With their new idea in mind they go after the cat and finally get hold of it, with their clothes torn and scratch marks on their skin. Rachael volunteers to acquire the cats DNA not just to find the yeerks hideout but also to check on her friend Melissa who had not been very friendly recently. She follows Chapman into the basement. Where Visser Three appears, not for real, but just as a hologram. He notices the cat Rachael and asks Chapman to kill her suspecting Rachael to be an Andalite, as he does not know that the Animorphs are actually humans. But than after seeing her acting just like a cat he decides to spare her. The next day the same happens and Rachael follows Chapman into the Basement. This time she hides under the table, she jerks when she hears a voice in her head and realises that Jake had morphed into a flea to accompany her. She is exposed when Chapman accidentally kicks her. She screams and Visser, now fully sure that she is an Andalite in a cat morph, orders Chapman to bring her to him. He also asks Chapman to bring Melissa, his daughter, to make her a controller.

 Rachael struggles but gets put in a cage. Suddenly Mr Chapman starts to act weirdly like slapping himself as the human Chapman had started to take charge of the body but the yeerk who was eventually stronger regained control. Melissa comes down after this and asks help in a problem but her father ignores her. He didn’t take Melissa along to stuff a yeerk into her head, as he didn’t want the real Chapman to fight him again. She returns to her room sobbing. Rachael realises why Melissa had not been talking lately but she also knew that Melissa’s real father still loved her.

 The next moment Rachael was at the construction site, it was almost two hours and time was running out but she dared not morph back to human cause if she had the Visser would have realised that the others were Humans too. The Visser arrived in a blade ship with a fighter ship to guard him. The moment he stepped out he was attacked by a huge tiger, Jake of course, who had managed to morph back to human and into the tiger just in time. Chapman dropped the cage and Rachael ran out. Visser started morphing into a gigantic beast, Jake escaped but Rachael was not quick enough the Visser almost caught her when Tobias swooped down and flew off with her while Cassie and Marco distracted the Visser in their hawk morphs and slowly made their escape.