sent to 380 people this week, it's .… ------------------------- ANIMORPHS ~ weekly ~ NEWSLETTER ------------------------- ISSUE #136 WEEK OF MARCH 11, 2001 <HI EVERYONE!> The March Break begins tomorrow, NO SCHOOL!!! Two other big things start tomorrow (find out in News)! This past week I FINALLY got #51, my mom bought it for me as a huge surprise! When I saw the book, I screamed and jumped! The cover looked so beautiful, "Only three more until the end." I loved it! Expect a review of #51 next week! And TODAY, my sister surprised me by giving me #52! My bookstores had BOTH books! Anyway, voting for Nick's Kids Choice Awards start tomorrow, voting for ANOTHER awards show starts in two weeks!! Now, on with this weeks newsletter! &&&&&&&&& AW FORUM &&&&&&&&& Last week's forum: do you think Everworld caused K.A. to use ghostwriters for Animorphs? Why or why not? Only two responses, that's sad, thanks to Andrew and Tyler who sent theirs in. "I think it definately caused her to ghostwrite, but that's ok because I really like Everworld, so I'm glad she got that along with Animorphs. But I won't read Remnants, cause it sounds dumb!" - Andrew "No, I don't think Everworld was the total reason for ghostwriters. Maybe it played a PART, but not totally. I think KA just got kinda bored of the series. It may not seem possible, but seems highly probable to me. I mean, since the ghostwriters, has KA even seemed like she's THERE anymore? To me, I fell like she disappeared.... oh well... did that answer the question...? Umm....probally not..." - Tyler This week's forum question is: Do you think Remnants will have the success Animorphs did? Will it get a TV show? Why or why not Send in your forum responses to aw_newsletter@hotmail.com with "forum" as the subject. Or respond at the AWN website, http://awn.ani-news.com %%%%%%% AW POLL %%%%%%% Last week's poll question was: would have bought Animorphs food (like Spagettis-Os) if there was such thing? No way 4 Maybe 1 Sure 3 This week's poll question is: what was the more shocking news item, K.A. stops writing not only Animorphs but Everworld as well OR K.A.'s new series, Remnants? Send in your poll responses to aw_newsletter@hotmail.com with "poll" as the subject, or respond online (http://awn.ani-news.com). ====== NEWS ====== -- XTREME AND NOT TOBIAS' LAST NAME Last week I had a suspicion that 'I' was the intial of the Tobias' last name because the intials "T.I." were found on the Official Site. Well this past week, we have found out that that is not the initial of Tobias' last name. I also got three emails describing the initials. It turns out "T.I." stands for The Informer, who is an "outsider" and the head person of the Official Site's new addition, Animorphs Xtreme. This new site is basically full of spoilers for the most recent books and just talks about how the Yeerks are actually real and winning the war (whatever!). You can find Animorphs Xtreme here (but beware of extreme spoilers for books #45 and above): http://www.scholastic.com/animorphs/xtreme/ -- OFFICIAL #52 STUFF Along with Animorphs Xtreme, the Official Site also updated with #52 The Sacrifice summary and cover! Here's the official back-of-book summary: The war between the Yeerks and the Animorphs is still raging. There are no more secrets - but there are plenty of lies. The kids are fighting harder than they ever thought they could. And they're about to make the biggest decision they've ever had to face. A decision that may eventually break them all. Ax and the Animorphs have known that the ultimate destruction of the Yeerk pool will give them a huge chance to take back Earth. And they've figured out a way to do it. But there's no way to destroy the pool without destroying everyone else that may be there. And there's no more time to think about it. There's only yes or no... and you can find the huge cover here: http://www.scholastic.com/animorphs/download/bk52.jpg -- OFFICIAL #54 SUMMARY What more can I say, the summary for the last book has been released! I won't post it here though, you'll have to click on the link to go to it. I haven't read it myself, so I don't know what it says!: http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books? id=9843351318579&pid=0439115280 And there's more to report on the book, B&N says the book will have 176 pages. Also, Amazon posts that the final book will have 185 pages. Now I don't know which one is the REAL page number (maybe neither of them), but the actual one could be very close to those two (and that would be really awesome!)! -- VOTE FOR ANIMORPHS! As I said in the intro to the newsletter, voting for Nickelodeon's 2001 Kids Choice Awards begins tomorrow and Animorphs is nominated for Best Book! We have to make Animorphs win, since it won't be nominated next year as the series is ending. You can vote on the net here: http://nick.com/all_nick/specials/kca_2001/kca_index.jhtml Voting will go until March 26 and the awards will air on April 21 on Nick! +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ON THE BOOK CHARTS +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Yey! #51 The Absolute is on the Top 150 Book Charts! The book dropped to 133 this week from 100 last week! <><><><><><><><><><><><> WEB PAGE OF THE WEEK <><><><><><><><><><><><> Ah! Not Another Animorphs Fan Site?! https://members.tripod.com/Utahraptor33/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLOSING REMARKS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks for reading this week's issue! Send all your comments, forum, polls and any information to me at aw_newsletter@hotmail.com Thanks again and see 'ya next week! ENJOY YOUR SPRING BREAK!! - Guillermo < QUOTE OF THE WEEK > "Quaildog! Hello! I just have to give you a great big hug! That is just the most wonderful drawing! Especially considering you have no thumbs." - Commissioner Shelacki, "Quailman and the Quintuple Quandary" ********************************************************************** ** Get all the latest news, polls, and forums at the Animorphs Weekly Newsletter's Official site! All that and more only at http://awn.ani-news.com ********************************************************************** ** ANIMORPHS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER #136 is copyright (c) 2001 by Guillermo Larocca (aw_newsletter@hotmail.com) NO NEWS SHOULD BE POSTED ON ANY ANIMORPHS WEB SITE OR NEWSLETTER WITHOUT GIVING ANIMORPHS WEEKLY PROPER CREDIT AND LINKING TO http://awn.ani-news.com