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//Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment //

Author: James Patterson Genre: Adventure Length: 422 pages, 135 chapters Grade Range﻿﻿: 6th to 8th Grade Year Published: 2005

Characters & Summary

There are many characters in Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment. The main character is Max, who lives with her close friends (not siblings), the Gasman, Iggy, Nudge, Fang and Angel. Max, Iggy, and Fang are fourteen, Nudge is eleven, the Gasman is eight, and Angel is six. Max’s favorite is Angel. The Gasman and Angel are the only two siblings in the ‘flock’. Yep, you read that right. Max and her friends are all ninety-eight percent human, and two percent bird! However, they don’t roam around freely. If they do, they’ll be caught by Erasers, who are half human, half wolf creatures, who have a taste for flying humans.

Basically what happens in the story is that Angel, the youngest, is kidnapped by Erasers and taken to the School, a horrible places where they were grafted with avian DNA. Now, Max and the others have to save Angel, and discover who the flocks missing parents are. Will they recover Angel and go back home safely? Or will all their efforts be in vain?

Review & Recommendation

I liked the book Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment because it was an interesting read. Each and every page was captivating. What I liked about the book was that at the end of every chapter, there was a cliffhanger, and the next chapter was about one of the other characters. It made you hungry for more of the story, which kept you reading. Also, the end of the book is a cliffhanger, so you have to read the second book in the series to know more.

I would definitely recommend this book to other children my age. Even though there is some bad language, it only occurs a few times in the whole story. If you liked this book a lot, you can check some of the other books written by James Patterson. Some of them are //Where the Wind Blows//, //The Lake House//, the other //Maximum Ride// books, and the //Alex Cross// series.

My Rating

9.5/10