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Ms. Schmidt Language Arts ½ October, 10, 2015 My Summary In the well known Maximum Ride: Angel Experiment book, James Patterson displays, not only the stress and pressure of being on the run, but also the corky side of children and teenagers, capturing the attention of young readers like myself. The main setting of the story is in America, starting out living in a small house in California to secret laboratories in Death Valley and breaking, and all from a First Person point of view. , Maximum Ride the Main character of the book,and her “Flock” are not like regular kids each one of them is only ninety-eight percent human and two percent bird, and each having super strength, hearing, and vision.Max is the mother figure and leader of the five other members of her “ Flock”, the youngest being six year old Angel, The Gasman age 8, Nudge age 12, Iggy ( who is blind) age 14, Fang age 14, and Max being the oldest by only a few months, and age 14. If that wasn’t enough “special” each one of them has a different super power, Max being able to fly at super …show more content…

The Flock fought hard and it seemed as if they were winning, until the Flock heard a scream and saw their little Angel being taken away. The Flock wasn’t fast enough to catch up to the Erasers, so they watch as Angel is taken away to a place they know only as The School. The School is where Max and the Flock were “ made” and their they were experimented, and just because they were cruel the scientists their stored them in dog crates. Then one day a friendly scientist named Jeb Batchelder, who broke the Max and Flock out and took them to his home where they were raised, and taught how to

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