This week, I read the first Maximum Ride book. The main character is a girl named Max. She lives with five other kids who she escaped from "the school." The characters are supposed to have been genetically altered (wings) and experimented on. When Max was about eleven years old, a scientist named Jeb helped her and the other kids escape. A few years after, Jeb went missing. At the beginning of the story, the six children are living somewhere in the mountains. Somehow, the scientists were able to figure out where they had gone. The youngest child, a six year old girl named Angel, was kidnapped, but the others escaped. They are trying to figure out how to get her back.

Although the story does have a strange story line, it's funny. Max is an interesting character. She is trying to be the leader, but is still incredibly young. She can't really even take care of herself. Also, her age (14 years old) gives her an interest in ordinary things as well. I think that the overall plot makes sense, even if the smaller details don't. The author overlooked things such how kids living by themselves on a mountain would be able to buy food. Besides this, I think that it is a pretty good book.