I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!! I've just discovered Maximum Ride, and I think it's the best. However, there is A LOT of violence in the series.But it's a great book, I highly recomend it.
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Maximum Ride, Book 1: The Angel Experiment
(2006, Fiction - Science Fiction, Written by James Patterson)
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Not age appropriate for kids under 10, age appropriate for kids over 11; suggested age 11. -
Is it any good?
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Common Sense says
OK series launch about flock of mutants. Tweens.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 11 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
About Maximum Ride, Book 1: The Angel Experiment
Parents need to know that there is a lot of violence here, some of it quite brutal, including serious injuries. There are broken noses and bones, knocked-out teeth, and some deaths, guns, explosions, and car chases. The marketing for this book is also pretty intense, including Blogspot and MySpace pages and a contest to put together a tie-in music CD.
Read our full review by Matt Berman
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about the idea of human and animal experimentation and whether or not it's ethical. In the book, the scientists are clearly the bad guys, but are these types of experiments ever justified? You can also discuss the book's marketing. Why the tie-in CD and Web sites? Are there different standards for book and movie marketing? Could this kind of aggressive, movie-style marketing of a book actually be a good thing, or is it just manipulative?
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- I rate this title on for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
Lots of violence, but a great series.
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
Lots of violence, but a great series.
I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!! I've just discovered Maximum Ride, and I think it's the best. However, there is A LOT of violence in the series.But it's a great book, I highly recomend it.
- I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
YUCK
This is a bad and extremely violent book. There is nothing happy in this book, you will like this book if you books with death, blood, and depressing things!
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
A exciting start to the series, this book succeeded in having me interested. But soon it just gets worse and worse, until the whole plot is a jumble and things are left unexplained eg. The Voice? A vaguely fun read followed by even worse ones.
- I rate this title on for age 12 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- My highlights are:
Great series, careful of the violence with easily-scared kids
I am an EXTREMELY picky mom (for example, there's absolutely no way I'll let my kids read the Twilight series until they're 15 or 16, and we have no TV) - I'll just say that right up front. My daughter is 11, and a very innocent 11, but I didn't think the kiss was too much. I also didn't think the violence was too much, though there was a lot. I would recommend this book for 12+-year-olds, give or take, depending on what they've been exposed to, but I'd especially recommend it for reluctant readers (exciting, very short chapters).
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