Maximum Ride is a fourteen year old girl with wings who is the result of genetic 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 very steely and determined boy who is four months younger than Max; Iggy, who was blinded by experimentation to improve his night vision; Nudge, a young and very energetic girl who talks non-stop; and two young kids, Gazzy or the Gasman ass they call him, an eight year old boy with persistent intestinal problems and Angel, his six-year-old sister. The two were the only real siblings in the group. Max and her companions were kept in cages and subject to repeated scientific experiments during their life at the School (the lab where they were kept 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 kept them at his mountain home and raised and educated them in se; 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.

by scootter

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