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| Name that Book : A runaway kid | | 6 | secret_elf, January 21 | |
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| Dormant: Read YA Lit : Need Newbery Recommdation | | 14 | LibrarysCat, January 2008 | |
| Dormant: Read YA Lit : Girls in Boys' Roles. | | 18 | MerryMary, December 2007 | |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 10 Mar 2007 | | 125 | stringcat3, May 2007 | |
| Dormant: Read YA Lit : What are reading right now? | | 62 | quicksylver_btg, April 2007 | |
I second Maniac Magee. I'm not sure how old I was when my teachers read that to us, but I absolutely adored it. I think anything by Roald Dahl would work, too; maybe The BFG. Another good one is one my 7th grade Lit teacher read us called Goodnight, Mr. Tom; it's pretty tough subject matter, ... Maniac Magee, Feathers, Coraline, and Mike Lupica books would all be good read alouds for 6th graders. I've finished Maniac Magee, and I'll be starting Maroo of the Winter Caves with my class next week. It's a really good Pre-Historical Fiction. :-) I teach sixth grade and my students love these books:
The City of Ember
Maniac Magee (and almost anything by Jerry Spinelli)
The Egypt Game
Seedfolks
Rescue Josh McGuire
Running out of time and Maniac Magee both look really good. Thanks ... read for late elementary and middle school girls who want a lighthearted romance set in an exciting world.
169. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Tags: juvenile fiction, race, racial tensions
... I'd also add Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli. Callen
I'm on a quest to read the Newbery award and honor books. I haven't read Maniac Magee and now your post prompts me to do so.
I recently read two wonderful books which I highly recommend: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and The Wednesday Wars, both by Gary Schmidt
... to figure out what the title meant, and it bugged me. Maybe I'm not versed enough in Bible quotes. Right now I'm reading Maniac Magee for the sixth time with my current 6th grade class - GREAT book! ... and UKL's A Wizard of Earthsea et seq. And while it wasn't around during my youth, my sons really got a kick out of Maniac Magee in late elementary school.
ETA: from the US Jerry Spinelli
... think that any book should be the most influential book unless you've only read one or two boods in your life. I could say Maniac Magee or Trigonometry for Dummies and they would be two different books yet they are very close in my rankings, maybe the same place. ... Chronicles of Narnia, any Roald Dahl, the Young Wizards books, A Wrinkle in Time and sequels, Hitchhiker's Guide, Maniac Magee... Favorites from when I was younger.
I was a much bigger rereader as a kid -- I must have read The Forgotten Door, The Pike River Phantom, The Pinballs ... ... ver
1993 Cynthia Rylant - Missing May
1992 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Shiloh
1991 Jerry Spinelli - Maniac Magee
1990 Lois Lowry - Number the Stars
... Haddix (jfic thriller, 5, #155)
168. Palace of Mirrors by Margaret Peterson Haddix (jfic/MG, 3, #155)
169. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (jfic, 4, #155)
October
170. Liar by Justine Larbalestier (YA, 4, #157)
171. The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z by Kate ... ... as are its sequels (though perhaps less so)...but if you like My Side of the Mountain, you'll probably also like Maniac Magee--two of my absolute favorites as a kid! I was going to say it was Manic Magee...until you got to the training falcons how to hunt bit.... ... (Oct.)
6. "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" - Mildred D. Taylor (Oct.)
7. "Maniac Magee" - Jerry Spinelli (Mar.)
8. "Holes" - Louis Sachar (Mar.)
9. "Bridge to Terabithia" - Katherine Patterson Our sons are grown and gone; I have just a couple of their old books that I've kept (e.g., Maniac Magee), and they are in my library. Oh yes Ya, My son read a couple of Jerry Spinelli books this year and enjoyed them. I think they were Loser and Maniac Magee. Maniac McGee by Jerry Spinelli comes to mind. Looking through the recommendations associated with that, The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (and The Giver, which hasn't been touchstoned yet), Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, and The Wh ... I second Number the Stars, and I remember loving The Grey King as a kid. Maniac Magee was also a really good one.
The only one of the Newbery books that I read and didn't like was Out of the Dust. I read it when I was 13 or so and thought, "No kid will enjoy this. This is a book for ... Just to throw in some that I could think of:
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
The Mysterious Benedict Soci ... ... are Sideways Stories from Wayside School (there are two sequels, I believe) by Louis Sachar, Bunnicula by James Howe, Maniac Magee, Stargirl, or anything by Jerry Spinelli... Today I got a first edition hardcover of Salman Rushdie's East, West from a second-hand bookshop. Should be a good read/break from my usual stuff I read, Neil Gaiman this ain't, but since it was a book of short stories, I couldn't resist. The Chekov and Zulu story is pretty good, quite dense and ... ... An American Original
The Blue Taxi
A Wedding in December
Mistress Bradstreet
700 Sundays
Fortunate Son
Maniac Magee
The God of Small Things
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Audio books
Black Friday
Mary Mary
Honeymoon
London Bridges
Holidays on Ice
Naked
... ... The Parousia: A Critical Inquiry into the New Testament Doctrine of Our Lord's Second Coming by James Stuart Russell
4.) The Second Coming: Mission Accomplished: An Alternative View to Current End-Times by Steve and Tom Kloske
5.) The Consummation of the Ages (A.D. 70 and the Second Coming ... ... was six, I haven't read it in awhile), Matilda by Roald Dahl, My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli, and most of all The Giver by Lois Lowry. I've actually managed to talk everyone in my family, my non-reading younger siblings and ... ... of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland. Very, very sad, but beautiful and touching nonetheless. I've been a fan of Spinelli since Maniac McGee, and this is another great read by this author that can write across the ages.
Starting Murder of Bindy Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty, author of the ... ... read this year's winner, Criss Cross).
Here's my favorite from each decade:
2000s
Tale of Despereaux
1990s
Maniac Magee
1980s
Jacob Have I Loved
1970s
The Westing Game
1960s
Onion John
1950s
Miracles on Maple Hill
1940s
The Twenty-one Balloons
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