School's Out - Forever (Maximum Ride, Book 2) | 
|  | | | Title: | School's Out - Forever (Maximum Ride, Book 2) | | Author: | James Patterson | | Publisher: | Grand Central Publishing | | Type: | Book / Mass Market Paperback | | Publication Date: | 07 April, 2007 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0446618896 / 9780446618892 | | List Price: | $6.99 | | Amazon Price: | $6.99 | |
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"Adventure, fighting, backstabbing and love abound" (VOYA) in this action-packed follow-up to the #1 New York Times blockbuster MAXIMUM RIDE: THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT, now available in paperback. The heart-stopping quest of six winged kids--led by fourteen-year-old Max--to find their parents and investigate the mind-blowing mystery of their ultimate destiny continues when they're taken under the wing of an FBI agent and attempt, for the first time, to live "normal" lives. But going to school and making friends doesn't stop them from being relentlessly hunted by sinister spies, who lead Max to face her most frightening match yet: a new and better version of herself.
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Customer Reviews:
• Maximum Ride:schools Out 10 March, 2008
James Patterson keeps you riveted from the first . The book is very entertaining and quick reading.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A18DC2LGUBIEGH
• Gee, The Flock Just Doesn't Have Good Luck With Schools... 22 April, 2008
- A stunned doctor (learning of Max's wings): "You're a human-avian hybrid."
- Max: "I prefer Avian American."
Warning: Some SPOILERS here.
These poor, poor kids! Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel - six genetically-engineered kids, ages ranging from six years old to fourteen - have not had an easy time since birth. Imprisoned in cages, mercilessly subjected to agonizing experiments, and grafted with avian DNA (ergo, the retractable wings), they finally broke out of the School some years ago. But the School has been implacable in hunting them down ever since, and, somehow, it has the ability to always locate them. And the School, more often than not, sends out the Erasers, its vicious werewolf-like enforcers, to do its dirty deeds. So far, Maximum Ride (or Max) has been able to take care of her flock and fight off the Erasers and confound the laboratory whitecoats. But the pressure is slowly starting to take its toll. For Max, there's that weird Voice in her head and that burden of having to save the world, although she doesn't yet know from what. Not to mention, she has to face up to the gravity of a horrible act she committed in the prior book. As this second volume to James Patterson's awesome Maximum Ride series opens up, nothing much has changed.
MAXIMUM RIDE: SCHOOL'S OUT - FOREVER begins roughly 24 hours after the events in MAXIMUM RIDE: THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT. Having infiltrated and then escaped from the Institution (which is directly linked to the malevolent School), the kids are flying enroute to Washington, DC to look for Iggy's birth parents when they are attacked in mid-flight by a new breed of Erasers - this time, Erasers with their own wings. The furious battle leaves Fang gravely injured and forces Max to take him to a public hospital, where his wings can't help but be noticed by the doctors. Soon enough, the FBI comes a-knocking, and Max is left with no choice but to cooperate until Fang recovers. An FBI agent coaxes the flock into staying with her in her sprawling Virginian home, and she even enrolls them in a school. But, even as the flock begins to relax into their new lifestyle, the Erasers make their move...and Max finds out that her deadliest foe may be...herself.
Meanwhile, is it such a surprise that the flock's new school turns out to be pretty sinister? And that the flock's former trusted friend, Jeb Batchelder, persists in testing Max?
MAXIMUM RIDE: SCHOOL'S OUT - FOREVER improves on THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT. This one is just as fast-paced but even more riveting, and Patterson manages to pack in busloads of character development (for one thing, we learn more of the Eraser, Ari, and what goes thru his head; also, Total the dog completely rocks). And, while the answers are still long in coming, there are some notable reveals. For instance, Max gets a step closer to figuring out her destiny, specifically, the how-to-save-the-world part of it (she actually discovers the entity which she's supposed to go up against). Meanwhile, this series continues to hit you up with the humor, the funniest sequence being when the kids were separately interviewed by perplexed FBI agents. I also enjoyed the flock's time at the private school. I guess it's not too much of a shock that these particular kids would so frequently end up in the Principal's office, no matter how much Max has pleaded with them to blend in.
Because the story is narrated mostly thru Max's first person point-of-view, the reader sympathizes with her the most. Max, always protective of her charges and gutsy and bold and funny, is a wonderful heroine. She tells her story engagingly and with warmth and drops in a lot of humorous and poignant Max-isms. She becomes even more real when she gets quite jealous of the FBI agent's growing maternal relationships with her flock and later at last breaks down from having shouldered so much responsibility for so long. She's such an appealing character. But then so are the rest of the flock (and Total).
From Virginia to Florida (where, of course, the kids have to make a pit stop at Disney World), MAXIMUM RIDE: SCHOOL'S OUT - FOREVER takes you on an exhilarating flight. The conspiracy, it turns out, is very real and on a global scale. The stakes are extraordinary. The peril is ever present; the odds against the flock, massive. And then there's also homework. And first dates.
James Patterson crafts another rapid, engrossing read guaranteed to keep you up nights, and, if you're a young adult, maybe even keep you from your own homework and dates. If the first entry to the series THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT was intriguing, this one'll get you hooked but good. And, as if Max isn't a cool enough person, she also discovers a new super power. Which makes her even cooler.
Just don't ask her to cook.
The Maximum Ride series (so far):
- Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment (Teen's Top 10 (Awards))
- MAXIMUM RIDE: SCHOOL'S OUT - FOREVER
- Saving the World (Maximum Ride, Book 3)
- The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4)
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2HVL790PBWYTU
• An Excellent Storyline 14 March, 2008
Reviewed by Jevaryon Jennings (age 16) for Reader Views (3/08)
All and all, I would have to say that this book is excellent. The storyline is great and there is just enough action so that you enjoy the book at the same time not forgetting the main plot. I would jump at the chance to recommend this book to readers, young and old, although it is written for the younger generation. I would highly suggest that the author James Patterson, would, if not already, continue to write books from this series -- not only from this series but from any other things he has to offer from his imagination. I would rate "Maximum Ride Book #2: School's Out Forever" very high on any scale, so all and all, this book has my approval and I highly recommend that more readers, young and old, take the time to read and appreciate books written by James Patterson.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1YZ3IJXI2J119
• Kids Love It! 07 April, 2008
THE SERIES IS ENGAGING, THE INTERACTIVE WEBSITE IS A USEFUL RESOURCE, LESSON PLANS ARE AVAILABLE FOR FREE THROUGH THE WEBSITE. MY NON READERS WERE HOOKED AND TOTALLY ENGAGED! GREAT NOVEL FOR ALL READING LEVELS.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3M9ZELIFX6YYB
• Maximum Ride - School's Out Forever 14 May, 2008
All four of the Maximum Ride books are fun reading. You can't put the book down and when you are getting to the end, you can't wait to read the next one.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3II1ZLJENJ96N
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