Family
Immediate:
- Father Dan is a news anchor. He is divorced and lives by himself. In #7, when he was moving out, he offered Rachel the opportunity to stay with him and fly back every weekend to see her mother and sisters, but Rachel declined.
- Mother Naomi is a lawyer and is extremely headstrong and contentious. When she is forced to hide in the Hork-Bajir valley, she tries to escape a few times. Not popular among the Hork-Bajir, despite helping them draft a constitution and was in the process of teaching them to read and write.
- Sister Jordan is two years younger than Rachel, and was implied on some occasions to have a crush on Marco.
- Sister Sara is younger than Jordan.
Rachel's family
- Uncle Steve Berenson (brother of Dan) worked as a pediatrician, and became a Controller late in the series.
- Aunt by marriage Jean Berenson worked as an author, and became a Controller late in the series.
- Cousin Jake Berenson is the leader of the Animorphs.
- Cousin Tom Berenson is a Controller from the beginning of the series.
Other family
- Cousin Saddler (by an unknown sibling of Dan and Steve, either his mother Ellen or his father George). Received life-threatening injuries in Book 21. David acquired and morphed the wounded Saddler, briefly masquerading as him and allowing his family to believe he'd miraculously recovered. The family would have suffered further grief when David became trapped in a rat morph as a nothlit, causing 'Saddler' to disappear without explanation. The real Saddler has never been seen again and is presumed dead.
- Cousins Justin, Brooke, and Forrest are siblings of Saddler.
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