Maximum Ride Book #4: The Final Warning

by James Patterson
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Publish Date: March 15, 2008
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In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her--and maybe save the planet while she's at it.

Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control government experiment. Max and the other members of the Flock--six kids who share her remarkable ability--have been asked to aid a group of environmental scientists studying the causes of global warming. Their ability to fly could help the scientists conquer this epic problem. The expedition seems like a perfect combination of adventure, activism--and escaping government forces who watch the Flock like a hawk.

But even in Antarctica, trapped in the harshest weather on our planet, Maximum Ride is an irresistible target in constant danger. For whoever controls her powers could also control the world....

Maximum Ride is James Patterson's greatest character, a heroine who manages to be human and fearless at once. THE FINAL WARNING is an unrelenting new adventure from the writer Time magazine has called "The Man Who Can't Miss."

Author Information

James Patterson

In January, 2010, The New York Times Magazine featured James Patterson on its cover and hailed him as having "transformed book publishing." Time magazine named him "The Man Who Can't Miss," and he is a two-time Children's Choice Book Award "Author of the Year" nominee, a designation decided on by more than 15,000 children and teen readers.

In the past three years, James Patterson has sold more books than any other author (according to Bookscan), and in total, James's books have sold an estimated 205 million copies worldwide. Since 2006, one out of every seventeen hardcover fiction books sold was a Patterson title. He is the first author to have #1 new titles simultaneously on The New York Times adult and children's bestsellers lists and is the only author to have five new hardcover novels debut at #1 on the list in one year -- a record-breaking feat he's accomplished every year since 2005. To date, James Patterson has had nineteen consecutive #1 New York Times bestselling novels, and holds the New York Times record for most Hardcover Fiction bestselling titles by a single author (63 total), which is also a Guinness World Record.

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Posted August 07, 2011 by , Modesto, CA
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Posted March 09, 2011 by , The United States
4.Why do you break my heart, Patterson?

Posted January 29, 2011 by Hannah, Big City, Usa

This was just a super annoying Global Warming (haha) pitch and that was all. It was as bad as Al Gor's 'Inconvenient Truth' (forgive me, I'm a red and i'm outspoken). There are soooooooooooo many super cool ways that Maximum Ride could save the world. I mean, even an alien invasion would be less off topic than this! Ok maybe that's a little far fetched. But still, it annoyed me.

Don't get me wrong, i love this beautiful and God given planet and i'm totally for recycling and all that stuff (but i don't believe in Global Warming, look at the weather lately?!). However Maximum Ride has bigger things to worry about. Before Global Warming could even possibly happen, which it won't (again look at this freezing weather), somebody would have already taken over the world. I'm sorry but i'd rather drown free then live under a dictator!

Other than this book, however, Maximum Ride is awesome! She's tough but vulnerable, yet not too vulnerable. By far the best character ever thought up...well, right next to Iggy, anyway. Haha.

Go Max!!!!!!!!!
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Posted November 23, 2010 by , The United States
6.WOW

Posted August 02, 2010 by M Ride Fan #1, New York

So, I know that many people did not like this one very much, but I LOVED IT! I just, couldn't hate anything that had to do with Maximum Ride. Just my opinion though. :) Anywho, this book did have a lot to do with Global Warming. The flock starts to build on to this idea that maybe saving the world means saving it from pollution and things like that. Now, a lot of people did not like the idea of Global Warming being the problem and worry that the book will lose its action packed touch. Well, the thing is, Global Warming is just an idea. It's not the actual answer to the end of the world. So, don't worry about that. So, to conclude, maybe not the best Maximum Ride book, but not so bad that you shouldn't read it! FLY ON! Or, as Gazzy would say, "I vill now destroy de snicker bars!"
7.Great book!

Posted June 21, 2010 by Person, Somewhere

This book was a great read
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Posted May 27, 2010 by , New York, NY
9.Took a WRONG turn

Posted March 20, 2010 by BC, Reno

Patterson took a great group of characters and a fantastic young female role model and got VERY environmentally preachy. My daughter loved and devoured the series until this one went the direction of environmental brainwashing. Very disappointing.
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Posted April 11, 2008 by , Orem, UT