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Plot Summary Of 'Maximum Ride'

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Maximum Ride starts off with the main protagonist Max, a 14 year old girl who is a crossbreed of a human and avian. She lives with her group of friends who are also human-avian hybrids. Their names are Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel. Their former home was a school but escaped due to the experiments they were tested by scientists. She considers them “family, who are five kids not related to me by blood, but still totally my family”(Patterson 4). Suddenly Max’s group are attacked by erasers which are human and wolf hybrids, they take away the youngest member of the group Angel with the unique ability to read minds. Max, Fang, and Nudge go after Angel while Iggy ang Gasman protect their house with bombs and traps so the erasers won’t attack

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