Yamaguchi said that she passed the book on to her 11-year-old daughter, and that they were both eagerly awaiting “The Final Warning.” Asked who was likely to read it first, she responded, “I will.” “You go along and you’re entertained along with the rest of your family.” “When you take kids out to see ‘Spider-Man,’ you don’t say, ‘I’m going to see a young-adult movie,’ ” Mr. But this mushy hearts-and-flowers stuff? Ugh.”ĭavid Young, chairman and chief executive of Hachette Book Group USA, which owns Little, Brown, likens the books’ appeal to that of certain movies that cross age lines. “I hated conversations like this,” she thinks, “ hated talking about my feelings unless I was, like, furious. In a typical passage, when Max, the 14-year-old narrator, is talking with Fang, her best friend and erstwhile boyfriend, he asks, “What do you want from me?” and Max is flustered.
“The Final Warning” which, like the other three titles in the “Maximum Ride” series, has an uncredited co-writer, Gabrielle Charbonnet still bears the hallmarks of a novel aimed at juvenile audiences, with its irreverent teenage lingo and an action scene that hinges on one character’s flatulence. On the back of both “The Final Warning” and “Daniel X” is a new marketing rubric defining each book as a “James Patterson Pageturner,” written “for readers from ten to a hundred and ten.” Reminding readers of the books’ young-adult roots, the pitch promises that “special care has been taken with the language and content.”
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Patterson’s existing reputation among adult readers, Little, Brown has altered the cover design of “The Final Warning” to appeal to a broader audience, emphasizing the book title rather than, as is common for books aimed at younger audiences, the series name.Īnd whereas the flap copy for the first three books named all the main characters and used exclamation points and short words, the new title’s flap copy employs a slightly more complex vocabulary and emphasizes the global warming theme at the center of the book. Hoping to capitalize on that trend as well as on Mr. “The reality is that it’s easier, and a really good habit, to start to get parents when they walk into a bookstore to say, ‘You know, I should buy a book for my kid as well.’ ”
“The reality is that women buy most books,” he said in a telephone interview.
Patterson figures the best way to get young readers may be through their mothers. Now, with a new volume, “Maximum Ride: The Final Warning,” going on sale next month, Mr. Patterson who has an estimated 150 million copies of his books in print worldwide, and whose adult novels typically outsell his young-adult titles by two or three to one wants to sell more. Despite the kind of numbers that would make most authors beam, Mr. Of the three installments to date, there are about 4.8 million copies in print, according to the publisher, Little, Brown & Company. The idea, he said, was to get children to love reading or at least to love reading his kind of books. Three years ago James Patterson, the creator of the blockbuster best-selling Alex Cross and “Women’s Murder Club” series, began “Maximum Ride,” a series for young adults about a group of genetically mutated kids who are part human, part bird.
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