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Humano Morphs #4
Air Morph One: Ready for Takeoff
122 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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About the author
M.D. Spenser
58 books140 followersM.D. Spenser is a children's author, journalist and music critic. Born in the United States, he lives now in the UK.
"The Enchanted Attic," Book 1 of his popular SHIVERS series of novels for children, was republished as an e-book in August 2011. It is available at amazone.com, Barnes & Noble, Sony and iBookstory. Book 2, "A Ghastly Shade of Green," and Book 3, "Ghost Writer," followed shortly afterwards.
The rest of the 36-book series will be published as ebooks over time.
Also, an internet petition is circulating asking that the entire 36-book series be republished in paperback: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/md...
"The Enchanted Attic," Book 1 of his popular SHIVERS series of novels for children, was republished as an e-book in August 2011. It is available at amazone.com, Barnes & Noble, Sony and iBookstory. Book 2, "A Ghastly Shade of Green," and Book 3, "Ghost Writer," followed shortly afterwards.
The rest of the 36-book series will be published as ebooks over time.
Also, an internet petition is circulating asking that the entire 36-book series be republished in paperback: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/md...
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April 1, 2021
EDT: I did a full review for April Fools, my thoughts are a bit outdated now so here's the better version;
https://spongey444.wordpress.com/2021...
"If everybody in the country wants to vote for a twelve year old kid for president, they ought to be able to...They're allowed to vote for total idiots, aren't they?"
Sometimes I skim through random books on Archive.org for some cheap laughs but sometimes one makes me want to actually read through it for real, at least moreso because it catches my interest. This series seems weird, it's an Animorphs ripoff (from the mind behind Shivers) but it's an anthology, with different kids finding different methods to morph into other humans.
In this one, it's through his Native American friend, as he helps him morph simply by trying really hard and wanting to morph through pure selfless reasons. Yeah. The thing that caught my interesting with this one is the political satire.
I'm not kidding. The plot is that a kid discovers a milk factory actually produces anthrax which will soon get into some rivers and possibly cause the death of many people. He tries to get through to the government about it but they either don't take him seriously, or care more about how this will affect their job than the well being of the American people.
Basically, this book becomes about how the government tends to care more about what will make them the most money and stuff like that than anything else, Seriously, there's a scene where the kid, morphed as the president, asks the various departments to lay out their plans for the upcoming year and it basically spells out this theme. It gets even better when they discover why that anthrax was even there.
Let's just say I think M.D. Spenser has opinions about how the U.S. was handling things at the times but used this kids book as his outline since Twitter didn't exist yet. It's sad how this is all still relevant, more so than ever. It's still rather simplistic and goofy, being for kids, but this does have something to say and it's something even adults should keep in mind. It also has a solid arc for the lead as well.
I guess it figures a rip off a series known for being more mature than it looks reflects that.
https://spongey444.wordpress.com/2021...
"If everybody in the country wants to vote for a twelve year old kid for president, they ought to be able to...They're allowed to vote for total idiots, aren't they?"
Sometimes I skim through random books on Archive.org for some cheap laughs but sometimes one makes me want to actually read through it for real, at least moreso because it catches my interest. This series seems weird, it's an Animorphs ripoff (from the mind behind Shivers) but it's an anthology, with different kids finding different methods to morph into other humans.
In this one, it's through his Native American friend, as he helps him morph simply by trying really hard and wanting to morph through pure selfless reasons. Yeah. The thing that caught my interesting with this one is the political satire.
I'm not kidding. The plot is that a kid discovers a milk factory actually produces anthrax which will soon get into some rivers and possibly cause the death of many people. He tries to get through to the government about it but they either don't take him seriously, or care more about how this will affect their job than the well being of the American people.
Basically, this book becomes about how the government tends to care more about what will make them the most money and stuff like that than anything else, Seriously, there's a scene where the kid, morphed as the president, asks the various departments to lay out their plans for the upcoming year and it basically spells out this theme. It gets even better when they discover why that anthrax was even there.
Let's just say I think M.D. Spenser has opinions about how the U.S. was handling things at the times but used this kids book as his outline since Twitter didn't exist yet. It's sad how this is all still relevant, more so than ever. It's still rather simplistic and goofy, being for kids, but this does have something to say and it's something even adults should keep in mind. It also has a solid arc for the lead as well.
I guess it figures a rip off a series known for being more mature than it looks reflects that.
August 3, 2016
I loved the entire series.
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