Genre: Manga - Young Adult
My Rating: 8/10
I'm so excited that publishers are making manga from popular middle reader and young adult titles! Not only is it fun to reread the story with illustrations, but it's great from a teaching point of view as well! The kids in my class loved reading manga versions of their favorite novels and I'm now glad to be able to add James Patterson's Maximum Ride series to my shelves.
The manga sticks pretty close to the novel's story line ~ so fans of Max and her flock will be pleased. Volume 1 of the manga series focuses on the events that occurred in The Angel Experiment and deals with the kidnapping and rescue of Max's youngest 'sibling', Angel. If you're new to the Maximum Ride story here's a little background information...
A secret government lab found a way to cross avian and human DNA and has secretly been kidnapping kids and turning them into super-strong, winged beings. Max and her friends (Fang, Iggy, Gasman, and Angel), each have enormous wings that sprout from their shoulder blades and allow them to fly. (As the story progresses you find that they have other special abilities, too!) The School (the bad guys), has been testing and training Max and her friends for years but they somehow managed to escape and have been living in hiding ever since. Just when they think that they might be able to have semi-normal lives, Erasers arrive and kidnap Angel. The flock immediately sets off on an adventure to rescue their youngest sibling and learns something shocking about the plans The School has in store for them all.
Order this from Inkwood Books HERE
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