Ooh, Animorphs. It also took my mom a while to warm up to them...but these were some of my favs back in the day. I eventually stopped reading 'em, but I remember reading the last one in Target one day...just because I HAD to know how it ended. I need to get some of my own copies(always just got 'em from library). I don't know how these new ones would be received...the old ones were classic and should not be messed with, says I!
Sidenote: In mine and my sisters' imagined Bionicle mythos, the planet was colonized by mechanical creations that had been designed to hold a human's sentience to continue the "human race" by genius scientists(who infused themselves into bigger, stronger bodies - Toa), because the human race was about to be wiped out by a biological super-weapon that had been deployed by humans to fight the Yeerk invasion of earth. It went horribly wrong and there was no chance for humanity to survive...except in mechanical bodies. And wow, that sounds terribly confusing...but thought you'd enjoy that, Jason.