Maximum Ride is about six children Maximum, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel. They were made to be different from others. At very young age, they were abducted by scientists that were part of “the School” and they were used as lab rats for the scientist genetic human/animal experiment. Max and the rest of the flock are half bird and half human because of an experiment done to them. Now these kids were different, they had wings on their backs, so now they flew, making them 98% human and 2% bird. This book covers a portion of the backstory of the run, clarifying how they wound up all alone in their mountain home. It also introduced the antagonist of the flock-half-wolf, half-human animals known as the Erasers. They seek out to find and kill
