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Uh… look. We know we messed up the book order. I get it. Just… It’s. Fine. 2021, Baby! Tobias is just doing his thing, being a depressed bird, when wham: non-yeerked up Hork Bajir and a private convo with local god-like being, The Ellimist. Join us for Book 13: The Change!

Welcome back to the most unhealthy love triangle we've ever had to deal with! We're back to talk more about the destruction of an entire alien race, mixed in with a nice dose of eugenics, war crimes, and murder in this children's novel!

We’re finally dipping our toes into the Chronicles Books of the animorphs series! Since we just had Tobias establish the free colony of Hork-Bajir, it’s time for the creepiest and most toxic love triangle I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing in children’s literature. Thanks Scholastic! We obviously had a lot to say on this one, so check in next time for Part 2!

It’s the end of the year, and it’s time to join One Boy on his journey to be a self-sufficient hermit in My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George! You let raccoons in for one wild halloween party, and you’re paying for it all winter, buddy.

Don’t tell any eight year old girls but we’re gonna be talkin’ ‘corns today. That’s right-- those big ol’ horsies with the stab-ready foreheads. As a special treat, we’re diving into the first book of The Unicorn Chronicles series by Bruce Coville, about a girl with red hair (no relation) named Cara (no relation) who has, y’know, a special destiny, and junk.

Welp, it’s here, and it’s here to stay: Puberty. Basically Rachel is going through it over a Jonathan Taylor Thomas expy but also an alligator literally explodes out of Rachel’s back, so, you know. Classic metaphor!

Honestly I’m starting to wonder how much of the terror in this series is completely ant-based. I think we have to be between 10-30% ant horror, at this point. But this time, it’s rainforest flavored ant horror! KA still hits us with that variety!

Back to your regularly scheduled Animorphs, and back at it again with a Marco book. Rule #1 about Androids? Must love dogs.

Happy Spooky Season everyone! For this week we're doing something different, and are hopping into one of our favorite books just in time for Halloween. Hide your vegetables...or don't!

Let’s talk about the value of skunks.  First of all: cute.  Second of all: not a colony insect that creates untreatable and unrestrained terror and trauma in the psyche of a 14 year old girl.  That’s really all you need, right?