This series has also been adapted as manga. The Maximum Ride novels for young adults feature 6 teenagers who are 98% human and 2% avian.
Later in the series, global warming becomes an issue for the teenagers to face.
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Average Rating:
4.1 rating based on 228,113 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0446617792
ISBN-13: 9780446617796
Goodreads: 13152
Author(s): Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 5/5/2006
Six unforgettable kids — with no families, no homes — are running for their lives. Max Ride and her best friends have the ability to fly. And that's just the beginning of their amazing powers. But they don't know where they come from, who's hunting them, why they are different from all other humans... and if they're meant to save mankind — or destroy it.
4.1 rating based on 228,113 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0446617792
ISBN-13: 9780446617796
Goodreads: 13152
Author(s): Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 5/5/2006
Six unforgettable kids — with no families, no homes — are running for their lives. Max Ride and her best friends have the ability to fly. And that's just the beginning of their amazing powers. But they don't know where they come from, who's hunting them, why they are different from all other humans... and if they're meant to save mankind — or destroy it.
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Average Rating:
4.1 rating based on 122,924 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0316155594
ISBN-13: 9780316155595
Goodreads: 13139
Author(s): Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 5/23/2006
In this eagerly awaited follow-up, brave bird-kid Max and her flock are discovered by an FBI agent and forced to go to "school." There is no such thing as an ordinary day as Max deciphers how and when she's supposed to save the world, and she faces her greatest enemy--a clone of herself. Little, Brown and Company
4.1 rating based on 122,924 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0316155594
ISBN-13: 9780316155595
Goodreads: 13139
Author(s): Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 5/23/2006
In this eagerly awaited follow-up, brave bird-kid Max and her flock are discovered by an FBI agent and forced to go to "school." There is no such thing as an ordinary day as Max deciphers how and when she's supposed to save the world, and she faces her greatest enemy--a clone of herself. Little, Brown and Company
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Average Rating:
4.1 rating based on 95,851 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0316155608
ISBN-13: 9780316155601
Goodreads: 33676
Author(s): Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 5/29/2007
In MAXIMUM RIDE: SAVING THE WORLD AND OTHER EXTREME SPORTS, the time has arrived for Max and her winged "Flock" to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of "Re-evolution", a sinister experiment to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race...and to terminate the rest. Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel have always worked together to defeat the forces working against them--but can they save the world when they are torn apart, living in hiding and captivity, halfway across the globe from one another?
4.1 rating based on 95,851 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0316155608
ISBN-13: 9780316155601
Goodreads: 33676
Author(s): Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 5/29/2007
In MAXIMUM RIDE: SAVING THE WORLD AND OTHER EXTREME SPORTS, the time has arrived for Max and her winged "Flock" to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of "Re-evolution", a sinister experiment to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race...and to terminate the rest. Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel have always worked together to defeat the forces working against them--but can they save the world when they are torn apart, living in hiding and captivity, halfway across the globe from one another?
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Average Rating:
3.9 rating based on 72,659 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0316002860
ISBN-13: 9780316002868
Goodreads: 1829709
Author(s): Publisher: Jimmy Patterson
Published: //
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.
3.9 rating based on 72,659 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0316002860
ISBN-13: 9780316002868
Goodreads: 1829709
Author(s): Publisher: Jimmy Patterson
Published: //
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.
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Average Rating:
4.1 rating based on 75,452 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0316002895
ISBN-13: 9780316002899
Goodreads: 3393124
Author(s): Publisher: jimmy patterson
Published: //
James Patterson's bestselling Maximum Ride series is back, with Max and the gang as The Protectors. Someone--or something--is decimating ships and sea life off Hawaii's coast, and Max and her flock find themselves sucked into the Navy's top-secret investigation of the catastrophe. Their objective: Rescue Max's activist mom from a wicked subterranean enemy. The hitch: They must dive deep into dark waters, where gruesome evil dwells... and for high-flying Maximum Ride, could there be anything more terrifying than being trapped in the great abyss? This soaring new adventure takes Maximum Ride and the Flock into terrifying new territory--fans, hold your breath!
4.1 rating based on 75,452 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0316002895
ISBN-13: 9780316002899
Goodreads: 3393124
Author(s): Publisher: jimmy patterson
Published: //
James Patterson's bestselling Maximum Ride series is back, with Max and the gang as The Protectors. Someone--or something--is decimating ships and sea life off Hawaii's coast, and Max and her flock find themselves sucked into the Navy's top-secret investigation of the catastrophe. Their objective: Rescue Max's activist mom from a wicked subterranean enemy. The hitch: They must dive deep into dark waters, where gruesome evil dwells... and for high-flying Maximum Ride, could there be anything more terrifying than being trapped in the great abyss? This soaring new adventure takes Maximum Ride and the Flock into terrifying new territory--fans, hold your breath!
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Average Rating:
4.1 rating based on 62,712 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0316036196
ISBN-13: 9780316036191
Goodreads: 6431790
Author(s): Publisher:
Published: //
Being a kid with wings -- constantly on the run -- has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the Flock makes her fear the worst. And as if an impending apocalypse weren't bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max's soul mate: Fang will be the first to die. Max's desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the team weather the storm, or will the turmoil rip them apart for the last time?
4.1 rating based on 62,712 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0316036196
ISBN-13: 9780316036191
Goodreads: 6431790
Author(s): Publisher:
Published: //
Being a kid with wings -- constantly on the run -- has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the Flock makes her fear the worst. And as if an impending apocalypse weren't bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max's soul mate: Fang will be the first to die. Max's desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the team weather the storm, or will the turmoil rip them apart for the last time?
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Average Rating:
4.0 rating based on 52,830 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0446545244
ISBN-13: 9780446545242
Goodreads: 7201913
Author(s): Publisher: Pageturners
Published: 2/14/2011
In the seventh book in the bestselling series, evil scientists are still trying to convince Max that she needs to save the world, this time by providing the genetic link in speeding up the pace of evolution. Worse, they're trying to convince her that her perfect mate is Dylan, the newest addition to the flock. The problem is that, despite herself, Max is starting to believe it.
Fang travels the country collecting his own gang of evolved humans, but the two separate flocks must unite to defeat a frightening doomsday cult whose motto is Save the Planet: Kill the Humans. And this time, the true heroine, for once, might just be little Angel.
4.0 rating based on 52,830 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0446545244
ISBN-13: 9780446545242
Goodreads: 7201913
Author(s): Publisher: Pageturners
Published: 2/14/2011
In the seventh book in the bestselling series, evil scientists are still trying to convince Max that she needs to save the world, this time by providing the genetic link in speeding up the pace of evolution. Worse, they're trying to convince her that her perfect mate is Dylan, the newest addition to the flock. The problem is that, despite herself, Max is starting to believe it.
Fang travels the country collecting his own gang of evolved humans, but the two separate flocks must unite to defeat a frightening doomsday cult whose motto is Save the Planet: Kill the Humans. And this time, the true heroine, for once, might just be little Angel.
