{"id":153,"date":"2009-06-20T17:44:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T21:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-06-18T17:44:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T21:44:50","slug":"teen-fiction-spotlight-maximum-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/2009\/06\/teen-fiction-spotlight-maximum-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Fiction Spotlight: Maximum Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maximum Ride and her friends are on a mission to save the world.\u00a0 The first book in the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson is entitled &#8220;The Angel Experiment,&#8221; but Fang, Maximum, Nudge, Gazzy, Angel and Iggi aren&#8217;t angels.\u00a0 The kids were given wings during mysterious experiments in the laboratories of the shady multi-billion-dollar corporation Itexicon.\u00a0 There are other mysteries to the kids&#8217; world as well: some of them are developing new, strange powers, and Maximum in particular has shocking connections with a scientist at Itexicon, and\u00a0one of the leading members of the hideously mutated Erasers,\u00a0flying agents of the evil\u00a0corporation. \u00a0 Maximum Ride is an action-packed race around the world, filled with adventure, romance, secrets and even a talking dog.\u00a0 Critics and teens alike have heaped praise on Patterson&#8217;s blockbuster series.<\/p>\n<p>You might also try checking out the tales of Daniel X, a teenage alien hunter pursuing some of the worst alien outlaws on the loose on Earth.\u00a0 Daniel X must save multiple planets in this action-packed series.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson has been writing action-packed thrillers and dramatic romances for adults for years, and is one of our most popular writers.\u00a0\u00a0 His books for teens are great, entertaining summer reads!\u00a0 Check them out at Whitley County Public Library in our Young Adult section, located on the main floor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maximum Ride and her friends are on a mission to save the world.\u00a0 The first book in the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson is entitled &#8220;The Angel Experiment,&#8221; but Fang, Maximum, Nudge, Gazzy, Angel and Iggi aren&#8217;t angels.\u00a0 The kids were given wings during mysterious experiments in the laboratories of the shady multi-billion-dollar corporation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}