Hawk

by James Patterson

Overview

A story for a new generation of Maximum Ride fans! 17-year-old Hawk is growing up hard and fast in post-apocalyptic New York City . . . until a perilous destiny forces her to take flight.


Where is Maximum Ride?
Ten years ago a girl with wings fought to save the world. But then she disappeared.

Now she's just a fading legend, remembered only in stories.

Hawk doesn't know her real name. She doesn't know who her family was, or where they went. The only thing she remembers is that she was told to wait on a specific street corner, at a specific time, until her parents came back for her.

She stays under the radar to survive...until a destiny that's perilously close to Maximum Ride's forces her to take flight. Someone is coming for her.

But it's not a rescue mission. It's an execution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316494403
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	07/06/2020
Series:	Hawk Series , #1
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	15,650
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)
Lexile:	720L (what's this?)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

James Patterson is the world's bestselling author. The creator of Maximum Ride and Crazy House, he has donated more than one million books to students and soldiers, as well as millions of dollars to independent bookstores and school libraries. He lives in Florida with his family.

Gabrielle Charbonnet is the coauthor of Sundays at Tiffany's, Witch & Wizard, and Crazy House with James Patterson, and has written many other books for young readers. She lives in South Carolina with her husband and a lot of pets.

Hometown:

Palm Beach, Florida

Date of Birth:

March 22, 1947

Place of Birth:

Newburgh, New York

Education:

B.A., Manhattan College, 1969; M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1971

Website:

http://www.jamespatterson.com

Editorial Reviews

07/20/2020

Patterson and Charbonnet (the Crazy House series) reunite for this continuation of the Maximum Ride saga, set a decade after the events of 2015’s Maximum Ride Forever. Hawk, 15, has eked out a scavenger’s existence in the City of the Dead (a postapocalyptic New York City) for the past 10 years, hiding her wings and waiting for her parents to return. But when her found family, a band of mutant children, is kidnapped for further experimentation, Hawk encounters the Flock, winged freedom fighters bent on improving the world. Now reconnecting with her parents—including legendary rebel Maximum Ride, secretly imprisoned for nearly a decade—Hawk must rescue her friends and overthrow the City of the Dead’s megalomaniacal governor, McCallum. For someone forced to grow up on her own, however, the hardest thing may be accepting a family she barely knows. This accessible novel offers a new entry point into Max’s world of evil corporations and superhuman hybrids, splitting the narrative’s first-person perspective between Hawk and her mother. While the novel doesn’t bring anything new to dystopian fiction, it’s a fast-paced, action-packed read, ideal for fans of the original series. Ages: 12–up. (July)

Publishers Weekly

Raves for the blockbuster MAXIMUM RIDE series:
#1 New York Times Bestseller
Publishers Weekly Bestseller
An ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults
An ALA/VOYA "Teens' Top Ten" Pick
A VOYA Review Editor's Choice
A New York Public Library "Books for the Teen Age" Selection
A Book Sense Summer Children's Pick
A KLIATT Editors' Choice
A Children's Choice Book Awards Author of the Year for MAX

Praise for Hawk:

"Expect Patterson's return to the Maximum Ride universe to soar to even greater heights than before." — Booklist

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