Maniac Magee is such a rich text. I remember reading this book in the fourth grade and falling in love with the characters! This book is intended for an older audience. The messages throughout touch on homelessness, racism, and death. I know that young readers will connect with Maniac, from his knot...
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...
About halfway through this book I got really nervous because I couldn't remember the ending and I thought I might have to quit it soon. There's a lot of cringeworthy material in the book: "blacks" for black people, food words for skin color description, white savior, "today's Indians." It never ...
My 9 year old son recommended this book to me. I found myself too jaded by life while reading this book. It was hard at times for me to suspend my disbelief at the "over the top" accomplishments that Maniac Magee had. I was half way's through the book when I finally understood; As an adult I tend to...
I remember reading this book in the 5th grade. It was assigned to us and usually I don't think I will enjoy the books that are assigned to us as a class grade, but this is one of my favorite books ever. I find this to be a beautiful story and the main character, Maniac Magee, to be one of the strong...
I feel as though I am slightly cheating by counting this book as one of my 105 books I wanted to read in 2013, but I just love this book and I just could not resist rereading it for the first time since 5th or 6th grade. As I reread Maniac Magee I expected that it would lose some of the magic it hel...
Just re-read this so I could remind myself what happens in it before recommending it to a student.I enjoyed it so much more than I remember enjoying it the first time! Jeffrey/Maniac is a fantastically-written character, the tone of the writing was brilliant, and the end totally made me cry.This is...
Readers of Maniac Magee witness the birth of a legend. The language and events are over the top, as they should be. Magee deals with tough issues in his own, kid like way.
Maniac Magee was the 1991 Newbery Award Winner. In a tall tale style, this short novel tells the story of Jeffery "Maniac" Magee, an orphan and runaway, whose interesting feats and quest for a home make him a legend to children in one town. In a large sense Maniac Magee is a didactic story about pos...
Eh. Read it at the Possum's instigation. There was stuff I really liked, but there was also a bit too much of that Newbery-award winning "dealing with tragic issues". Plus, maybe it's just me, but even the not-aggrandizing supposedly true story of Magee was so over-the-top AWESOME I had a little bit...
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