On Earth they live in disguise, hunted by the Mogadorians who have followed them. During the invasion, a rocket was sent from Lorien to Earth, containing nine Garde children, each accompanied by a Cêpan to act as guardian and to help them when their Legacies develop.

The planet Lorien has been invaded by the belligerent Mogadorians, who coveted its resources and slaughtered it's people. Never in John's short life has there been space for friendship, or even love.īut it's just a matter of time before John's secret is revealed. People he cares about - and who care about him. And for the first time he makes some real friends. So when he stops in Paradise, Ohio, John decides to try and settle down. If he stops moving those who hunt him will find and kill him. He cannot tell anyone who or what he really is. He regularly moves from small town to small town.

We have lived among you without you knowing. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. But they found us and started hunting us first. Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books-but we are real. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. Number Four starts another new life in Paradise, Ohio and decides to try and fit in but it's only a matter of time before he is found. His kind, the Loric, were all but wiped out by the Mogadorians, but nine gifted children and their keepers managed to escape with a charm that stops them from being killed out of order. I Am Number Four follows the titular character Number Four after the death of another of his kind, Number Three. In 2011, DreamWorks released a film adaptation with the same name,played by Alex Pettyfer as Number Four. The book was published by HarperCollins on the 3rd of August, 2010 and spent seven successive weeks in the number one spot on the children's chapter of The New York Times bestseller list. I Am Number Four is the first of seven in the Lorien Legacies young adult science fiction novel series by Pittacus Lore (the pseudonym of James Frey etc.).

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