Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride better known as Max knows what it's like to soar above the world. She & all the members of the ' Flock'
- Fang Iggy Nudge Gasman & Angel
- are just like ordinary kids
- only they have wings & can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time
- like when Angel the youngest member of the ' Flock' is kidnapped & taken back to the ' School' where she & the others were genetically engineered by sinister scientists. Her friends brave a journey to blazing hot Death Valley California to save Angel but soon enough they find themselves in yet another nightmare
- this one involving fighting off the half-human half-wolf ' Erasers' in New York City. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or in the bowels of the Manhattan subway system Max & her adopted family take the ride of their lives. Along the way Max discovers from her old friend & father-figure Jeb
- now her betrayed & greatest enemy
- that her purpose is save the world
- but can she?