The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1) | James Patterson

The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1) | James Patterson | My students' perspective

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	The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1) James Patterson Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 247 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An Exceptional Book

I found Maximum Ride a lovely book with the perfect amount of darkness to it. I mean, really, who wants to read a story where everything's always hunky-dory and nothing ever goes wrong? That's what I thought.

Anyway, Max, a fourteen year old self-proclaimed bird-girl (or Avian-American. Kind of an inside joke for people who've read Max Ride School's Out - Forever), and her winged, 2% bird Flock (all of whom are under fifteen yearsof age): Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman (Gazzy) and Angel are on the run from other mutants who want to capture them and bring them back to The School (The lab they were raised in, the School is located above the Badwater Basin in Death Valley). Max and her Flock have vowed never to go back to the School, but have no choice but to return when the youngest member of the Flock, six-year-old Angel, is kiddnapped by Erasers, half-wolf half-human mutants, who work as police, guards and exicutioners for the School, according to Maximum Ride herself.

Jeb Batchelder is father to Ari, the leader of the Erasers (Max didn't know Ari had been 'Eraserfied' yet until he took Angel and she saw him morphed), and used to be a friend and father-like figure to Max, but then he 'died', two years before Max and her Flock returned to the School. Something happened to Jeb, but he's not actually dead. You really want to know? You really have to read the Angel Experiment, then. :)

Max and Fang are close friends, and co-leaders, and they have many nightly talks about what to do with the Flock, and where to go next, and sometimes, just about anything. Max can find comfort in the black eyes of her right-hand man (Fang), even though she doesn't say it in so many words. One thing about them, is you're never quite sure about their relationship. Sometimes you might think they love each other, but then you turn around and they're fighting, or dating someone else, et cetera.

Max has other problems, too, besides finding Angel, saving the world (I forgot to mention that, huh?), and keeping her Flock alive and well. She also has a criptic Voice inside her head that gives her worse-than-a-migrane headaches. Max can't tell if the Voice is either male of female, friend or foe (albeit it says it is her friend) and it almost never shows emotion. As you might imagine, it gets annoying at times.

This book takes you into the action from the first chapter, and keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire read. I know. I started Maximum Ride, the Angel Experiment at midnight (I am a huge night-owl) and finished it four hours later.

Now, nearly five months later, I have read and repeatedly re-read MR one and two, written some fan-fiction on it, gotten two albums from two bands [...]
(I'm sorry for the length of my review, but it is very hard for me to write a short review about my favorite book.)

And needless to say, I give Maximum Ride (The Angel Experiment, and School's out - Forever) five stars.

Cheers to James Patterson and his first teen novel!

-DarkHawk09

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My students' perspective

My [...] class read Maximum Ride and really enjoyed it. As a final test I had the students write a book review. Here are two.
1. Jazz:
Maximum Ride is a thrilling and entertaining book that makes you keep reading. It is fun to read and has great characters. You will love to read this book. It is appropriate for most kids. Younger kids might have trouble with the smaller print. It is a family-fun packed adventure that everyone will love. You will have fun reading it and won't want to put it down. The characters of Maximum Ride make the book fun and entertaining to read.
The main characters are Max, Iggy, Fang, Nudge, Gasman, Angel, the Erasers (wolf-morphing men), and White Coats (scientists). It all started when the White Coats kept all the children in the Lab. In the Lab the white coats were mean to the kids. Jeb, one of the white coats, who was like a father to the kids, helped them escape the lab.
Max, is the leader of the "flock". She is very brave and is thirteen years old. Gasman and Angel are the only two kids related. Angel is the youngest of the group and can also read minds. Erasers are after her and she is called Subject 11. You will have to read the book to find out what happens with that problem.
Gasman has a weird obsession with bombs. He likes to make them and play with them. Iggy is blind, but has great hearing, especially when he is flying. Nudge will speak up when she has something to say and is always ready to go when she hears about a problem. Fang is quiet, but tells it like it is. All these characters have a big impact on the book. They make the book better and fun to read. I hope you read Maximum Ride and like it as much as I did.
2. Haley:
Imagine yourself running from your worst enemy, but instead of running you're soaring through the air. This a typical day in the life of Max. Max is one of six bird-like characters that makes James Patterson's Maximum Ride a thrilling, action-packed book for older children who love suspense and fiction. Each character in the book contributes to this phenomenal book. Max is the 14 year-old leader and caregiver of the flock. None of the children has family that they know of, expect Angel and Gasman, who are siblings. There is Iggy, the blind; Fang, the mystery; Nudge, the odd; Gasman, the exploder, and Angel, the youngest.
These six unnatural children were genetically engineered with bird DNA. The know neither how they were made nor why. But all the answers to their questions begin to unravel when the Erasers, the wolf morphing men, take Angel. She is taken back to The School, where the kids are all considered experiments to the White Coats and the Erasers. Thus, the action begins when the flock, as they call themselves, must go back to the horrid School to save Angel. On their journey they have many run-ins with Erasers. They cause the exhilarating scenes throughout the book. While at The School, Max doesn't find out about her past, but instead about the future. She also makes a new friend this is somewhat helpful, but doesn't seem to want to leave Max alone.
One never knows where the flock will run next to get away from the Erasers or to stay out of trouble. They could go through the subways of Manhattan, or hide in the trees of Central Park.
When reading Maximum Ride you will never know what hit you. You many never want to put the book down for even a split second. The author, James Patterson, keeps the reader excited and guessing what will happen next. He makes the end of every chapter a cliffhanger. Maximum Ride is a great book for older children and young adults. It is suspenseful, surprising, full of wonder, and bends your mind in ways you didn't think were possible.

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Maximum Ride

an Fantastic story join the flock Max the (leader) Fang, Iggy, Gsaman, (gazzy) Angle, Nudge. As they run from the school a evil lab that put Bird DNA in to them and cunducts experments on them. They escapied and are wanted alive or deadwouldnt bug the scientist now they are beging chased by easers half wolf killing meacieans so join them in their fights and filghts to survive.from the veary first page you will be kept on the edge of your seat

Fight or Flight by Serena

This is an amazing book about a fourteen-year-old girl who has to live with having wings in the real wold. Her name is Maximum Ride (Max) and she has to take care of five other kids like her. Their names are Fang and Iggy, both boys and are both also fourteen, Gasman (Gazzy) who's eight, Nudge who's ten, and Angel who's six. Max treats them like she would her own kids and asks like they are too.

All of them were created into human-avian hybrids (kid-bird freaks or just mutant freaks) by people who they call the whitecoats, or sceintists, in a lab that Max and her flock of kids call the School. When Angel gets kidnapped by Erasers (human-lupine hybrids or human people who can morph into wolves), Max leaves Iggy and Gazzy behind because Iggy is blind and she thinks Gazzy,even though he is Angel's real sister, is to small. on their trip back to California, Max helps a girl who is being bullied by guys and ends up getting shot. The girl who she helped lets her stay with her and her mother, who is a doctor. As soon as she can fly again, Max leaves them behind and goes in search for Fang and Nudge. They free Angel, after running into Iggy and Gazzy who say that there are to many Erasers up at there home to stay.

They end up on the run, while looking for the Institute, a building that has information about the flock and their parents, in New York. On their journey Max finds out that she has a voice in her head that isn't her own and it causes really bad headaches, so bad Fang has to carry her while they fly sometimes. They find the Institute and right after they get their info from it, they are discovered by Ari, an Eraser, and some of his gang. The flock run into a secret room, only to find more muntant freaks. They release all of them and make them run away. Max brings up the rear of the group and as they are about to escape the place, Max finds herself fighting with Ari. During the fight, Max brakes Ari's neck, killing him. As she is flying away, Max hears Jeb Batchelder (the man who saved her and the flock from the School, disappeared a couple of years later, discoved by Angel that he betray the flock and was working for the whitecoats, and he was Ari's father)scream after her, "You killed your own brother!" As she reaches her flock again she finds that all of the other mutant freaks were gone except for a dog that Angel wanted to keep.

This is a wonderfull book that leads into many surpises and fights that could kill the flock. I highly recomend this to anyone who loves adventure, fantsy, and mysteries all in the same book.

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