Maximum Ride the Angel Experiment
Series: 1) The angel experiment 2) School's out--forever 3) Saving the world and other extreme sports 4) The final warning 5)MAX: A Maximum Ride Novel 6)soon to come--FANG:A Maximum Ride Novel,
Publisher: Little Brown
Published: 2005
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780316057257
First sentence: The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.
Description: Maximum Ride is a fourteen-year-old girl with wings who is the result of some experiments at a secret lab to inject avian genes into human embroyos. Max is the oldest of the six members of her family, or as they refer to themselves, the flock. The others are Fang - a taciturn boy who is four months younger than Max; Iggy - who was blinded by experimentation on his sight at the lab; Nudge - a young girl who talks non-stop; and two kiddies, the Gasman - an eight-year-old boy with persistent intestinal problems and Angel, his six-year-old sister. Max and her companions were kept in cages and subject to repeated scientific experiments during their life at the School (as the lab was called); they were eventually freed by one of the lab scientists (who are referred to by the flock as Whitecoats) named Jeb Batchelder. Jeb secreted them at his mountain home and raised and educated them; but Jeb suddenly disappeared two years ago and the flock has been on its own since then. Suddenly, Erasers (experimental beings also developed at the lab who can morph into powerful vicious wolf-like creatures) raid the family's mountain hideaway and kidnap Angel. It's up to the flock to save her. 

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