[.ca] Maximum Ride School's Out Forever (ISBN 0316067962)

Must Buy! Must Read!:
Saw the advertisement for the first book in a magazine and immediately purchased it. Was not disappointed! Really enjoyed reading it. The author will keep you spellbound page-by-page as you fly with the winged children and journey with them on their adventure to stay alive. You will come to know and love the characters. If you like sci-fi and reading an imaginative book, then this is a must buy for you. Passed the book to my dad and he also enjoyed reading it. When I saw that this book was the sequel to the first one, I immediately purchased it. Just finished reading it and thought the author keep the story very much alive. Swept through the book in about three days, loved it, too. Great job, James.

Just as I expected....AMAZING!:
I read the first Maximum Ride book a few weeks before I read this one. When the first book was over, I was amazed at how good Mr.Patterson's writing was. It was humourous, but also bursting with action and adventure. With Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment, the book started fast and accelerated to an even faster ending. However, in this second book, I found myself bored at the beginning. It was becoming confusing. Max had killed Ari, then he came back alive, with wings? However, despite this slightly rocky begining, the book came back around the second part of the book. Here the real action began. Anyways, this second part of the series is about the six amazing winged children, when they go and live with an FBI agent for about two months. However, after an Eraser attack, the children are forced to run for their lives. Once again. This book is probably jsut as good as the other Maximum Ride book, and it even has an explosive ending....;)I suggest this to fans of the Maximum Ride series, and even if you aren't a fan yet, you'll soon become one... Anry Kyetam

Just as Good, or Even Better, Than the First:
After reading the first Maximum Ride, I was blown away. As soon as I heard that there was a second one, I borrowed it from a friend, and read it right through. It was just as good as the first one I'd read! We are swept along in the first few chapters by the Erasers (people who morph into owlves) showing up again and trying to kill the Flock. Fang nearly does get killed, but he survives, and the kids end up living with an FBI agent named Anne Walker as he recuperates. Enroled in an actual school, Fang and Max face larger problems than they may have ever encountered before: hormones. Iggy finds his parents, and the flock is forced to say good-bye. But soon their "normal" life is once more turned upside down when they discover that the school they were attending had something to do with Itex, a company that Max was supposed to save the world from. The kids hightail it out of there, along with Total, their talking dog. When they learn the FBI agent they were staying with was on the side of evil, they once more realize that you can't trust anyone, even those who say they love you. Then Max is kidnapped, and replaced by a clone, who's bent on destroying the Flock. If Max doesn't get away, it may be the end of them all. I loved this book, and I hope that the rest of them are as good as the first two.

Courtesy of Teens Read Too:
Stop! Unless you've read the first book in the MAXIMUM RIDE series, THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT, you should not read this review. Although MAXIMUM RIDE: SCHOOL'S OUT--FOREVER, could be read alone, you'll do much better if you read THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT first. Trust me. Read the first book, and then this one, and you'll end up thanking me. Now, if you promise you've already read the first book in the series, hold on to your hats, because the action heats up significantly in this second installment. Twenty-four hours after Max killed Ari, the bird kids are once again on the run. The whole gang is together again and in one relatively unharmed piece--Max, Fang, Iggy, Gasman, Nudge, Angel, and stray dog, Total. Max is trying hard to forget that when it came to escaping the Erasers (half-human, half-werewolf, read the first book!), she had no choice but to kill Ari in their fight for freedom. Except, surprise, Ari isn't dead! Jeb and the other doctors at the "school" are still trying to recapture them, and Fang has been deathly wounded. Max knows there is no choice but to get Fang to a real hospital, and she's not even really surprised when the FBI turns up to question them. What does surprise her is the appearance of Anne Walker, a head-honcho who wants Max and the gang to come to her home, where she can protect them, feed and clothe them, and study them. Fang still needs rest, and a roof over their heads and food in their belly at regular intervals sounds like a good idea. Although she's wary of Anne's true motives, Max and her flock move, temporarily, into Anne's home. They're even enrolled in school--a real school, not a cover for psychotic men in white coats to perform horrible experiments on them--and although that doesn't turn out so great, the time they spend at Anne's is helping everyone to forget some of the pain they've suffered. But the Erasers show up, as they always do, and Anne turns out not to be as wonderful as she first appeared, as also seems to happen on a regular basis. Not-dead Ari is determined to destroy the flock, especially Max, once and for all, and the Voice in Max's head is getting increasingly annoying as to her duty to save the world. This second book in the series is as full of adventure, heart-stopping adrenaline, and edge-of-your-seat action as the first book was. I loved the newfound powers that many in the flock gained in this installment, as well as Total's ability to talk. I can't wait to see what happens next, especially in regards to Itex and how it figures in with the seemingly imminent destruction of Earth. Kudos to Mr. Patterson for another winner in the MAXIMUM RIDE series. The only thing I hate is that it will probably be another year or so before we find out what happens next! Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"