The Proposal

Imagine that your mother died and your dad is getting married again? Well, in the book The Proposal by K.A. Applegate, Marco is suffering from deciding if his dad should get married or not. But there's one problem, his mom isn't really dead. Marco is in a team of five named the "Animorphs", and they can change into any animal they touch. One time when Marco was morphing and thinking about his dad he morphed into a mutant animal, half hawk, half lobster. He's morphing wierdly because he doesn't want his dad to get married but doesn't want his dad to feel bad, so he's torn between two feelings and he's torn between two animals. On the other side of things there is the "Yerks," aliens that are taking over the world and the "Animorphs" have to stop them. The "Yerks" are like slugs that get into your head and take control over your body. They aren't that easy to find. Marco figures out that a guy named "Tennet" is a "Yerk." "Tennet" is a person that gives advise on television and he is recruiting more people to become "Yerks." Marco and his friends must get him off the air permanently, but with Marco's weird morphing it will be hard. Will Marco get over his feelings? Will Tennet be defeated? Will Marco alloow his dad to get married? Read the book and find out.

It was exciting and funny. You just couldn't stop reading it. Once we read the first chapter we had to read more.

I don't agree that Applegate should be criticised for making Marco more serious here. Consider the situation (if you can't remember read the recap in the first chapter of each book!): everyone is now an utter mess psychologically. Hence the loss of humour. Plus the point, in terms of character development, of the Marco books is to show us that there's more than just his facade of jocularity. To be a 'rounded' character, he needs to be able to explain himself, to be dark, to have flaws. Et voila, we have this book.Personally I thought this was one of the best since about #29: plot AND character advancement, as well as an interesting premise. Plus the truncated, disjointed sentences seemed to be a little in abeyance. Even the obligatory pop-culture references (Hanson, take a bow) are better executed than of late. It really affected me emotionally (sob)...

i luv this book cause of the plot. There's this guy named William Roger Tennant and he's kinda like Richard Simmons. Exept on his show he surounded by lava lamps listening to callers and telling them about the sharing. So they try to stop him. This book is mostly a comedy.

K.A yet again impresses the whole nation of Animorph lovers. With a heart-touching story. The main plot of the story is that Marco's dad is getting married again. This puts him under a lot of stress, so therefore making him muff up his morphing. With an important mission happening marco can't afford to muff it up. I'm not going to tell you the rest. So here we have the exciting, humerous, mushy Animorph book. Exactly what you expect from an author this good.