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Loading... Maniac Magee (1990)by Jerry Spinelli
  
 2wonderY | Mar 9, 2019 |  Jeffrey Magee is sent to live with his aunt after his parents die in trolley accident. This is not a fun place to live and his aunt is a super strict Catholic. He hates is so much that he finally takes off running. He literally runs until he reaches Two Mills, Pennsylvania, a divided town where he goes back and forth between the east and west side. Maniac ends up living with a new family but many tragic events unfold until he finally finds what he's looking for. (  ) mckinzietangen | Feb 7, 2019 | This was a pretty easy read. I enjoyed it a lot when I was younger and it's something I would recommend to young readers. (  ) AngelaRenea | Jan 12, 2019 | What an endearing story. The story line is a little stilted or fragmented information. Even so the information you're given makes you think and wonder. This book was a school book for my child this year and so apropos in the circumstances happening in the news at this time. Jeffrey Magee doesn't understand why there's an imaginary boundary in a town where blacks live on the east side of town and the west live on the west side. The story has good and bad on both ends and Jeffrey Magee makes friends and enemies on both sides of town. In the end, hate is such a waste. ( ) VhartPowers | Dec 27, 2018 | This book is about a young boy whos parents are killed in a tragic accident, and he goes from family to family but none of the seem to ever work out. This could be used in the classroom to teach about overcoming tragedy and making the best of bad situations. I would use this in an older grade level since it is a chapter book. ( ) Megannau1 | Nov 20, 2018 |
 Adrian Jackson (Books for Keeps No. 96, January 1996) A marvellous and special book (a Newbery winner) - worth having as a set. It's the part mythic story of Maniac, always running, looking for, a home, how he got his name and how he became a legend. In between the stories of his untying the legendary Cobble's Knot, the baseball game involving a frog, sleeping alongside the buffalo at the-zoo and beating an ace sprinter by running backwards, is the racial, divide of the town. Maniac runs between the two, fighting his own battles, but also battling to bring people together. A wonderful read and read-aloud. Category: Middle/Secondary. . ...., Hippo, D3.50. Ages 10 to 14. Fran Lantz (KLIATT Review, September 1992 (Vol. 26, No. 6)) Jeffrey "Maniac" Magee is a scruffy 12-year-old runaway orphan with some exceptional powers--he can run faster than anyone, he can hit an inside-the-park homerun bunt, and he can untie any knot. One day he wanders into Two Mills, a highly segregated town. But Jeffrey is an innocent who makes friends with both black kids from the East Side and white kids from the West Side, and eventually--with only the force of his personality and unusual talents to help him--manages to unite the town. Spinelli has written an unusual and moving story. He presents Maniac as a legendary figure, and leaves it to the reader to decide what is true and what is myth. Although the book is a bit difficult to get into, the persistent reader will be well rewarded. Winner of the 1991 Newbery Medal. KLIATT Codes: J*--Exceptional book, recommended for junior high school students. 1990, Harper-Trophy, $3.95. Ages 12 to 15. Has as a student's study guideManiac Magee by Jerry Spinelli: Study guide by Andrew Clausen Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli: A study guide by Kathleen Fischer Has as a teacher's guide
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I've read it to 7th graders over a period of weeks, and they hung on the story - knowing from week to week exactly where we had left off. It was amazing. (