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Maximum Ride Series

Join a group of genetically engineered children, infused with avian DNA, who escape a shadowy research facility. Led by the determined Max, these winged youths fight for freedom and seek the truth about their origins. Their journey is a thrilling adventure filled with high-stakes action, unwavering loyalty, and a desperate struggle against those who seek to exploit their extraordinary abilities.

Maximum Ride: Fang
Max
Maximum Ride: The Final Warning
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
School's Out--Forever: A Maximum Ride Novel
Maximum Ride - 1: The Angel Experiment

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  1. 1

    Maximum Ride - 1: The Angel Experiment

    • 464 pages
    • 17 hours of reading
    4.2(291)Add rating

    Max soars above the world . . . but in James Patterson's thrilling adventure, fantasy can come crashing down to reveal the nightmares of the Angel Experiment. Maximum Ride and her "flock" -- Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel -- are just like ordinary kids, only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time. Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the "School" where she and the others were experimented on by a crew of whack jobs. Her friends brave a journey to blazing hot Death Valley, CA, to save Angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare: fighting off the half-human, half-wolf "Erasers" in New York City. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or in the bowels of the Manhattan subway system, Max and her adopted family take the ride of their lives. Along the way, Max discovers that her purpose is save the world. But can she?

    Maximum Ride - 1: The Angel Experiment
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    Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

    • 403 pages
    • 15 hours of reading
    4.2(1802)Add rating

    The exhilarating third novel in James Patterson's exciting adventure series for 9-15 year olds. You're about to join the adventures of Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel, six extraordinary kids who have powers like no other: they can fly, and they're being chased--no, hunted--across America and around the world. THIS IS THE END, MY FRIENDS. But I promise that you'll fly higher than ever before in this wild adventure, witness battles worthy of multiplex movie screens, and laugh until your sides hurt. Believe it or not, there's even a little romance. But all good things - and even terrible, unspeakable ones - must come to an end. This is that moment in time, I'm afraid. Either we save the world, or we crash and burn. And I mean all of us - even you, faithful reader, because you play a very big part in this story. Max The Flock needs your help. Yes, you. Join us at www.maximumride.com.

    Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
  4. 4

    Maximum Ride: The Final Warning

    • 272 pages
    • 10 hours of reading
    3.9(67307)Add rating

    In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her -- and maybe save the planet while she's at it.Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control government experiment. Max and the other members of the Flock -- six kids who share her remarkable ability -- have been asked to aid a group of environmental scientists studying the causes of global warming. The expedition seems like a perfect combination of adventure, activism -- and escaping government forces who watch the Flock like a hawk.But even in Antarctica, trapped in the harshest weather on our planet, Maximum Ride is an irresistible target in constant danger. For whoever controls her powers could also control the world. Maximum Ride is James Patterson's greatest character, a heroine who manages to be human and fearless at once.

    Maximum Ride: The Final Warning
  5. 5

    Max

    A Maximum Ride Thriller

    4.1(70500)Add rating

    Nobody said saving the world would be easy. Until now, Max and the flock have lived a lonely existence: hunted down, tortured, and pushed to the fringe of society; always on the run, they have never been able to live a normal life. But things are changing. The flock have finally found acceptance for their extraordinary skills.

    Max
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    Maximum Ride: Fang

    • 336 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    4.1(59520)Add rating

    FANG WILL BE THE FIRST TO DIE For years, Max has been on the run from evil forces threatening her and the Flock - but nothing could have prepared her for this horrifying prophesy delivered to her by Angel. Fang is Max's best friend, her soulmate, her partner in leadership of her flock of winged children. A life without Fang is a life unimaginable. Max's desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But their world is turned upside down yet again when the Flock meet a wealthy scientist who has a great interest in the birdkids. He introduces them to another winged boy, the beautiful Dylan. Raised in a lab like the Flock, he exists for only one reason: he was created to be Max's perfect other half. Now, a battle of science against soul, perfection versus passion unfolds, twists, and turns ... and meanwhile, the apocalypse is coming.

    Maximum Ride: Fang
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    Maximum Ride

    Angel

    • 322 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    4.3(32)Add rating

    Max Ride and her best friends have always had one another's backs. No matter what. Living on the edge as fugitives, they never had a choice. But now they're up against a mysterious and deadly force that's racing across the globe - and just when they need one another the most, Fang is gone.

    Maximum Ride
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    Maximum Ride: Nevermore

    4.0(22)Add rating

    IN THE BEGINNING,THERE WAS MAXIMUM RIDE . . . A GIRL. A FIGHTER. A LEADER. A SUPERHUMAN WITH A MISSION TO SAVE THE WORLD. SHE'S GONE TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTHSEEKING HER DESTINY. AND NOW, THE END ISN'T NEAR . . . IT'S HERE.

    Maximum Ride: Nevermore
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    Maximum Ride Forever

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    4.4(65)Add rating

    Legions of Max fans won't be disappointed by this encore episode in the beloved series about the incredible adventures of a teenage girl who can fly. As Maximum Ride boldly navigates a post-apocalyptic world, she and her broken flock are roaming the earth, searching for answers to what happened.

    Maximum Ride Forever
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    Hawk

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    Maximum Ride's 17 year old daughter Hawk is growing up hard and fast in gritty, post-apocalyptic New York City. She stays under the radar to survive, until a destiny that's perilously close to her mother's forces her to take flight. Hawk doesn't know her real name. She doesn't know who her family was, or where they went. The only thing she remembers is that she was told to stay on that street corner until they came back for her, for as long as it takes. That was thirteen years ago. The day that she finally gives up is the moment that her life changes forever. Because the promise becomes reality: someone is coming for her. But it's not a rescue. It's an execution

    Hawk