Elfangor's Journey (The Andalite Chronicles, No.1)

by Katherine Applegate and K.A. Applegate

Book Overview

Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul is an Andalite war prince--the one who gave the Animorphs the power to morph. "The Andalite Chronicles" is the story of how this warrior-cadet ended up on planet Earth Ages... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590108794
• ISBN13: 9780590108799
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very underrated hard scifi

It's unfortunate that the Animorphs backstory books involving the alien peoples involved in the events preceding the main series get the short end of the stick in terms of attention. This is some solid, high-quality scifi that I recommend to anyone who enjoys the genre.

childrens book

11 year old son loved the creativity of the author and asked for the compleat series.

Andalites and Yeerks

"Just give the humans over to the captain,they aren't your problem." I was wrong, the humans were my problem. Infact,I was about to have alot of problems.' These are the words and thoughts of Elfangor Sirrinial Shamtul,an Andalite aristh or cadet in training to become a warrior. The Andalites and the Yeerks have been at war for many years. Neither side seems to be able to destroy the other. Arasth Elfangor has has been called to the battle bridge, to be sent on a mission within the hour. The mission that will change his life forever. This is a colorful book in which Applegate throws in some good descriptions of what is happening at the time. *A thrilling book that keeps the pages turning. Visser Three's story is also told in this story. It tells who is responsible for creating the abombination that calls itself Visser Three,the only Yeerk to have aquired and Andalite body. Let us hope he is the last. When danger rears its ugly head, Elfangor puts his hoof down and stands up to the Visser. A must read.

Reader over 25

Here I am back again on my quest to reread and review all of the Animorphs books in the series. I noticed there are other reviewers who are older than the target audience, and I'm one of Those out there who enjoyed the series even though it "was for kids." This novel has a broad based appeal to it, for many reasons, and on many levels. This book is more in depth and has better character development/longer story than most of the others simply because its twice as long in page count. For some readers, like myself, that's an advantage, but for others who have less patience for reading, this probably isn't a good one to start out with. The novel stands fine on its own, but reading the rest of the series of Animorphs 1-13 would be helpful, if not critical to understanding the small bits and parts to the plot. The main character is Elfangor, known in books 1-13 as the dying alien called an Andalite who gave five young humans the ability to become any animal they touch. This process, called "morphing" was technology known only to the Andalites until that time. This novel tells the story of his life from the time he enters the military, until his gruesome death which began the Animorphs series in book #1: The Invasion. Full of fire to leave his cadet status behind and become a full warrior, Elfangor finds himself and a fellow cadet in a small mission which balloons out into something much larger. What begins as a standard boarding of a Skrit-Na ship (think the famous aliens from Close Encounters, although they're expanded on as having two different life cycles in the book), lands two humans in Elfangor's daily life. One of them is a girl named Loren, and the other is a name fans will recognize from previous series, Chapman. The humans were abducted by the Skrit-Na as either medical experiment fodder or to be placed in a zoo, and they're promised to be returned home. Elfangor and his comrade Aubron are assigned with a less-than-favored War Prince to take the humans back to earth, erase their memories, and send them on their way. It turns out, however, that Aubron learns something from the data downloaded from the Skrit-Na records, and to the entire crews amazement, they have a location for the most powerful weapon ever known, the Time Matrix. Believed to be a creation of the Ellimists, it has the ability to alter history itself, wiping out entire races before they ever have a chance to exist. As if the fact this super weapon has been found is not enough, its destination is enough to knock the Andalites off of their hooves. The Time Matrix is destined for the Taxxon home world, which is riddled with their most vile enemy, the Yeerks. They will not hesitate to use it as a weapon of mass destruction or worse. Taxxons and Yeerks have an alliance, the huge centipede like Taxxons become voluntary hosts for the parasitic, slug like Yeerks. Their home world is far from any place either cadet wants to go, but duty demands they grow up very quic

Great

This book is really good. I like the Animorphs series but prefer the megamorphs and the chronclies because the other boooks are too short. The andalite chronclies is brillant, but you should definetly read at least one animorphs book before reading it because otherwise you won't understand it and the surprises will be ruined.

Read to find out what happened before The Animorphs!

The Andalite Chronicles are about an Andalite Aristh who later on becomes a war prince. Elfangor was intercepting a Skrit Na ship when he discovered, a weapon so advanced the andalites didn't have one, The Time Matrix. On the Skrit Na ship Elfangor and Arbron, another Aristh, found two humans and brought them aboard the Andalite fighter. Elfangor, Arbron, and an Andalite war hero Alloran were taking the humans back to earth when they realized The Time Matrix was aboard the Skrit Na ship and went to a space port controlled by the yeerks to find the Skrit Na ship. There prince Alloran became the first and only Andalite controller and Arbron became a nothlit by staying in Taxxon form past the two hour time limit. Loren, one of the humans, but Elfangor alone now was able to get her back along with the time Matrix. Sub-Vissor Seven, who enslaved Alloran, Loren and Elfangor all made the Time Matrix take them to a mixed up world with part Earth, Andalite home world, and Yeerk home world. There was a pattern that had to be figured out so they could find the Matrix again. Sub-Vissor Seven and Elfangor with Loren found the Matrix at the same time. Elfangor went to Earth with Loren, now grown-up, and Elfangor got a grown man's morphs and lived together until one day when The Ellimist, the race who made the Time Matrix, showed up in Elfangor house, now known as Allan Fangor, and took him back to a space battle were he soon became a War Prince.