The final book in the
Maximum Ride series by James Patterson came out this past month so some of you might be wondering what you should read next.
Maximum Ride books are known for their mix of crazy science fiction, adventure and non-stop suspense. If you like the sound of that, here's a list of titles to get you started:
Enclave by Ann Aguirre
In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong- and dangerous.
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
Sarcastic, street-savvy Nick is drawn into the world of the Darkhunters, but must hide his participation in the battle against werewolves, vampire and zombies from his mother and school principal.
Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to she her affection, offers hope of a better future.
When Josh's older brother Max is arrested for murder, the victim's sister leads Josh to evidence of Max's guilt-and her own-hidden in their favorite online role-playing game and Josh, who was conceived to save Max's life years earlier, must consider whether he shares that guilt.
When her midwife mother is forcibly taken away by the very people she serves, sixteen-year-old Gaia Stone starts to question the role of the Enclave and whether it deserves the loyalty her family has so faithfully given.
Tory Brennan is the leader of a band of teenage "sci-philes' who live on an island off the coast of South Carolina and when the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing, they are exposed to an experiment strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs-and, perhaps, save their own lives.
When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape just might be possible.
In a world where angels are fierce stalkers whose irresistible force allows them to feed off humans and drain them of their vitality, a ruthless teenage assassin of angels falls in love with a half-angel half-human girl, with devastating consequences.
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel-prize winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
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