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Maniac Magee
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 371
EAN: 9780590452038
ISBN: 0590452037
Label: Scholastic Inc
Manufacturer: Scholastic Inc
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: April 30, 2002
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
Studio: Scholastic Inc
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Editorial Review:
Maniac Magee is a folk story about a boy, a very excitable boy. One that can outrun dogs, hit a home run off the best pitcher in the neighborhood, tie a knot no one can undo. "Kid's gotta be a maniac," is what the folks in Two Mills say. It's also the story of how this boy, Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee, confronts racism in a small town, tries to find a home where there is none and attempts to soothe tensions between rival factions on the tough side of town. Presented as a folk tale, it's the stuff of storytelling. "The history of a kid," says Jerry Spinelli, "is one part fact, two parts legend, and three parts snowball." And for this kid, four parts of fun. Maniac Magee won the 1991 Newbery Medal.
He wasn’t born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. And Maniac Magee became a legend. Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how he hit an inside-the-park “frog” homer; how no knot, no matter how snarled, would stay that way once he began to untie it. But the thing Maniac Magee is best known for is what he did for the kids from the East Side and those from the West Side.
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Rating:  - Maniacs are good friends
After reading Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli, I have learned a lot about what it takes to be a good friend. I thought I had good friends before I read it. Friends are supposed to be people you can laugh with, remember forever, and trust enough to ask for a payday loan without any threat of interest. Spinelli produced in Jeffrey Magee a completely different kind of friend.
Maniac, as he came to be known by other characters in the book was homeless, needy, untrusting of most others, ... Read More
Rating: - Run to this Book!
Run to this Book!
The Best of Juvenile Fiction
The story of Maniac Magee is a folk tale for today's kids. Jeffrey
Lionel Magee--known as Maniac Magee--runs away from home. His parents
died while he was only a baby and he had been living with his aunt and
uncle. One day when he couldn't deal with his caretakers any more, he
ran away from home and just kept running. That is where the legend of
Maniac Magee begins.
Maniac is a true folk ... Read More
Rating: - Maniac about Maniac Magee
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers 1991
Reading Level: 5.4
194 Pages
Genre: Fiction
Maniac Magee is the story of a young boy whose parents die in a tragic accident. He is left in the care of his argumentative and unpleasant aunt and uncle. He runs away and the book tells about his travels as a homeless boy in search of a home.
Maniac seems to become attached to a town divided in two: the blacks and the whites. Maniac, ... Read More
Rating: - *Teacher Review of Maniac Magee*
Title: Maniac Magee
Author: Maniac Magee
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co. Young Readers
Publication Date: 9/1/199
Reading Level: Accelerated Reader Level: 4.9 Appropriate for children ages 9-13.
Number of pages: 184
Genre: Fiction (Young Adult)
Jerry Spinelli's classic book Maniac Magee is still read and enjoyed by thousands of young adults every year. A Newberry Award winner, Spinelli's story of a young orphan named Jeffrey "Maniac" Magee provides its readers ... Read More
Rating: - Finding a place in the world
Maniac Magee is a young boy who lost his parents and was forced to move in with his aunt and uncle. Not liking them he one day decide to run away. Now on his own Magee was trying to find a place to stay. Later on he meets a girl who lives on the black east side and befriends her because they share the same interest in books. She later invites him home and he stays with her for a while. But since he was white, people had started to have issues with him so he decided to leave. Then after being on his own again ... Read More
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