Animorphs

Animorphs was a huge book series that started in 1996. It was by K.A Applegate. It's hard to find it nowadays, but you used to find it in every library and bookstore. It was pretty popular. It was about a group of 14 year olds who encounter an alien who crash landed. He was trying to save Earth from a parasitic alien race that wanted to take over the universe. His dying wish was that they save their planet until reinforcements come, and he gave them the ability to accumulate DNA to transform into animals in order to do so. 
There was a very unpopular/rare TV series that was based off of it.
Animorphs is famous for being a long running book series that portrays trauma (especially in teenagers) as a result of the horrible things they encounter in their adventures, unlike most stories. They give gruesome details to their transformations and experience both horrifying and fun elements to the animals they become, such as the disgust in eating a spider as instincts take over a lizard, or the joy and playfulness of being a dolphin.
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Category:Shapeshifting