John uses his 'legacies', which are akin to superpowers, to fend off his attackers and rescue Sarah. Mark and his friends organize a nasty surprise during the haunted hayride: Sarah, John and Sam are left stranded in the woods, where Mark plans to beat John up. Sarah's ex-boyfriend, football player Mark James, is a bully who torments both John and Sam.ĭuring the Halloween festival, Sam mentions that he knows about Mogadorians from a magazine, They Walk Among Us, a revelation that alarms both John and Henri. He also meets and is attracted to a fellow student, Sarah Hart, who is working as a photographer. There, John befriends conspiracy theorist Sam Goode and 'adopts' a dog identified by its name tag as 'Bernie Kosar'. As the story begins, he and his guardian or Cepân, Henri, learn of the death of Number Three and move to Paradise, Ohio, assuming new identities aka John Smith. Most of the book is told in the first person by Number Four, who takes the name John Smith. The story opens with a prelude that follows Hannu – the alias used by Number Three, one of nine Garde children hiding on Earth after their homeworld of Lorien was invaded – residing in Kenya where he is killed by Mogadorian assassins under the command of General Andrakkus Sutekh. The Loric are classified into two factions: the overseers known as the Cepân and the guardians known as the Garde, the latter of whom possess unique abilities known as Legacies.

The first book of the 'Lorian Legacies Series' 'I am Number Four', centers on the conflict between two extraterrestrial species: the Loric and the Mogadorians.

The novel is the first of a seven-book series. ĭreamWorks Pictures bought the rights to the film in June 2009 it was released on February 18, 2011, and was the first DreamWorks movie to be distributed by Disney's Touchstone Pictures. The book was published by HarperCollins on August 3, 2010, and spent seven successive weeks at #1 on the children's chapter of the New York Times bestseller list. I Am Number Four is a young adult science fiction novel by Pittacus Lore (the pseudonym of James Frey and Jobie Hughes) and the first book in the Lorien Legacies series.

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