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April 11, 2005 – July 6, 2020. Media type. Print (hardback & paperback) Maximum Ride is a series of young adult science fantasy novels by the author James Patterson. The series centers on the adventures of Maximum "Max" Ride and her family, called the Flock, who are winged human-avian hybrids created at a lab called The School.
Maximum Ride Forever is the ninth and final book of James Patterson's Maximum Ride series of novels. It was released on May 18, 2015, and chronicles the lives of the Flock after the events of Nevermore .
This timeline of the Maximum Ride series is based on statements throughout the books.This timeline is a work in progress; therefore, it is incomplete and may not be fully accurate.All times are approximate, and based as much as possible on dates given in canonical material. Timeline courtesy of DoctorMermaid and KCCreations. Sources for Years: The Angel Experiment takes place in 2005 (cf ...
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Maximum "Max" Ride is the main protagonist and the narrator of the Maximum Ride series. She is the oldest of the bird kids created by the School, and she is also the leader of the Flock.
Before The Angel Experiment
Max was created at an Itexicon facility called the School. Growing up, she had no name and spent the majority of her time either performing in painful experiments or confined to a dog crate. She was permitted to interact with the other children that would later form her flock, as well as Ari Batchelder, Jeb Batchelder's son. Around the time that Max turned ten years old, Jeb rescued her along with Iggy, Fang, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel. He took them to an isolated house in the mountains where they could be free to fly, learn, and interact with new parts of the world. On her eleventh birthday (an arbitrary date of her own choosing), she selected the full name Maximum Ride. Jeb vanished two years after the escape from the School. Max was declared Flock leader, due to her age and close relationship with Jeb.
The Angel Experiment
Max's normal life with the Flock is interrupted when Erasers attack and kidnap Angel. Max leads the Flock to rescue Angel from the School, learning along the way that Jeb is alive, and meeting a kindly veterinarian named Dr. Martinez. Gathering clues from their adventure, the Flock travels to New York, where Max begins experiencing painful headaches and visions, along with a Voice telling her to save the world. In a final confrontation, she kills Jeb's son Ari, the leader of the Erasers, but Jeb shouts after her that she has killed her own brother.
School's Out - Forever
With Fang injured, the Flock winds up at a hospital being questioned by the FBI. An agent named Anne Walker takes them in and they experience a normal life and normal school. Max continues to be suspicious, as well as uneasy at being replaced by Anne as a mother figure for the Flock. However, it turns out to be a trap by the School. Max is briefly replaced by her clone, Max II.
Ten years ago, Max was heavily injured and Fang made the choice to leave Phoenix in The City of the Dead and Max in a place to heal. While she was healing, she was kidnapped and locked up.
The story begins with Max in a jail called Devil's Hill. She has been imprisoned for so long she has lost track of time. Her cell is located on the top floor, which she presumes was deliberate to torment her emotionally. Max has flashbacks about Phoenix's first flight and what happened ten years ago before she was kidnapped, but she is mentally strained almost to her breaking point.
Max is forcibly awoken by one of the prison guards. She gets up only to see that another inmate, Kenton, has been paid to kill her. Her wings are cuffed so she cannot fly, but manages to survive the fight, accidentally killing Kenton in the process and getting stabbed in the side herself. She manages to remove the shiv and stumble to the infirmary, where she collapses.
The doctor of Devil's Hill is tending to her wound when she wakes up and find out he had given her a special blood transfusion of modified plasma and blood because of her avian DNA, and somehow he knows about the 2% avian DNA. She leaves the infirmary into the outdoor exercise space to get some exercise where she discovers Kenton's death.
The other inmates in the courtyard congratulate and acknowledge her on killing Kenton. Max, being finally fed up, begins to speak up about how wrong it is and how they need to resist the bad things people desire, but her speech backfires and more inmates begin to kill the others to get more food.
Right then, the leader of the City of the Dead and Devil's Hill broadcasts across the entire prison via the large screens. He knows about Max's rebellion and declares her to be sentenced to death. A large claw emerges to grab Max, and she doesn't resist until it is too late. She tries to escape as she is picked up harshly and dropped in the Judgement Room.
Max is tough, sarcastic, witty, independent and fierce. She acts as a motherly figure to most of the Flock, caring greatly about them. This connection is particularly strong with Angel, whom Max mostly raised. Max thinks of Angel as "her baby."
Max dislikes "girliness" and dressing up, and becomes annoyed with herself for worrying about her appearance.
Max has a tall and thin build, standing 5'8" in The Angel Experiment and MAX. She has a wingspan that starts
at thirteen feet, later up to fifteen feet. Her wings are hawklike, described in The Final Warning as light brown, ivory on the undersides, with black and white primaries. She has brown eyes. Her hair has varied over the books. The color is not mentioned in The Angel Experiment, but in School's Out - Forever and Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, it is repeatedly called blonde and even sun-streaked. However, starting in The Final Warning, her hair color is brown, but is still occasionally mentioned as containing sun streaks.
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Max and the rest of the Flock, like birds, have a built-in sense of direction and raptor vision.
Combat
Along with the rest of the Flock, Max learned how to fight and defend herself from Jeb Batchelder. She fights in a mixed martial arts style (once calling it Max Kwon Do). This, in combination with the Flock's enhanced strength, allows Max to easily defeat most (non-mutant) grown men. She often uses roundhouse kicks, which can be seen as her signature fighting move.
The Voice
Like the rest of the Flock, Max has unique abilities other than flying. She has the Voice (Later in Nevermore, the Voice is revealed to be Angel) in her head that tries to guide her, though she often does not listen to it. (Before the Voice had appeared, she would have excruciating headaches every now and then; this is because it had been trying to make room in her head.) At one point Max believes the Voice to be that of Jeb Batchelder, a white coat at the School, but in Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, he denies this, telling her that although he can imitate the Voice, he is not it. (It should be noted that both Angel and Ari have mentioned a Voice as well.)
Fang
Fang helps Max lead the Flock, and is in many ways the one she is closest to. Their relationship slowly develops into a crush and then into romance. They have their first kiss in The Angel Experiment, after Fang is injured. In School's Out - Forever, Max confides frequently in Fang, and feels jealousy when she sees him kiss a red-haired girl named Lissa. In Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, Max tells him while under the influence of Valium that she loves him. Their relationship continues to evolve, with their official first date in MAX, but goes through a rough spot until their reunion in Nevermore. In Maximum Ride Forever, Max gives birth to Phoenix, her daughter with Fang.
Dylan
Dylan was designed as Max's perfect mate. Max first meets him in FANG and feels attracted to him, although she is dating Fang at the time. They grow closer in ANGEL after her breakup, with their relationship developing into more of a romance, but Max continues to feel torn between the two boys.
Sam
In School's Out - Forever, Max goes on one date with a boy named Sam while temporarily attending a school in Virginia. This may have been to make Fang jealous. However, Max's paranoia made her suspicious of Sam.
•Max is one of the two members of the Flock who has met her parents. The second is Iggy, who found his parents, but left them because they wanted to make money from him.
•Max is known to the Flock as a terrible cook. Despite this, though, she cooks with Dr. Martinez in MAX and the food is good.
•She doesn't like cold weather; as quoted from her in The Final Warning: "I really, really hate cold weather. I hate bundling up. I'm more of a beach-and-sun kind of girl."
•She loves chocolate chip cookies.
•Max and the rest of the Flock are claustrophobic, a fear that came from being locked up in dog crates while at the School. Another fear of the entire Flock is the inability to escape if Erasers, Flyboys or anything of that nature were to arrive. Max also has a fear of snakes, which are the "worst fear" shown at the end of the second book.
•When Fang was injured in School's Out - Forever, and the Flock was questioned by the FBI, Max was the only one who used her actual name (although she didn't ever use her full name, Maximum).
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Nevermore: The Final Maximum Ride Adventure is the eighth book in the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. It was released on August 6, 2012. First copies of the preceding book, Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel listed the release date of Nevermore as being some time in February 2012. However, in the summer of 2011, fans of the series discovered a ...
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Maximum Ride is a young adult science-fiction fantasy novel series written by James Patterson. It chronicles the lives of six kids (aka the Flock)—Max (the leader), Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel (the youngest member)—who were created in a lab known as the School and are 98% human and 2% avian (bird). In addition to their mixed DNA, the Flock also has something many only dream of ...
