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Maniac Magee | 
 enlarge | Author: Jerry Spinelli
Brand: INGRAM BOOK & DISTRIBUTOR
Category: Book
Buy New: $6.99
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Rating:  719 reviews
Sales Rank: 4425
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 180
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: ING0316809063
ISBN: 0316809063
EAN: 9780316809061
ASIN: 0316809063
Publication Date: November 1, 1999
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Product Description
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary as he accomplishes athletic feats and other extraordinary exploits that awe his contemporaries. Paperback.
Amazon.com 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.
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 Surprisingly Uninteresting December 14, 2008
Since this book won the Newbery, I expected a good book. But it's mostly tells, not shows--a no-no for writers. The author tells just about everything. There aren't that many actual dialogue scenes between the characters. I didn't find this book interesting at all. Just because a book wins the Newbery doesn't mean it's going to be a winner.
 Maniac Magee great book! November 10, 2008
Maniac Magee is a wonderful book for any child to read. I read this bbok for me Children's Literature class and I could barely put it down. I found the development of the characters to be wonderful. Without a doubt I loved Amanda Beale, she was my favorite character and was definitely a spitfire. I would recommend that this book be used in intermediate grades. It is age appropriate for fifth grade and up.
Great condition! October 17, 2008
I am very happy with the condition of the book I have ordered through Amazon. Maniac Magee was one of the better books I have read to my family in a while, I look forward to ordering more through Amazon.
Brenda Olson
Maniac Magee October 12, 2008
Good selection for 10-14 year olds. Provokes discussions on orphans- prejudism-segregation and homelessness. Keeps the adolescent reader interested.
Timeless mix of tall-tale and heart September 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been passionately in love with this book since the 4th grade. I think it is one of the best children's books ever written, in the many themes it explores.
Heck, you have to give the author credit for writing such an ordinary story in a style usually reserved for legends. For that's what this becomes, an urban legend, a tall tale, of a boy who is simply an ordinary boy. It's real and touching even as it goes over the line to the roll-your-eyes fantastic.
Even as Maniac Magee impresses the locals with his small-time wonders, he is a very real boy with very real emotions. No character in this book is made flat, and everyone is shown in multiple lights.
And yet it still manages to have simple, poignant riding that is easily understood, even if the themes are a little more complex.
One of the greatest books Spinelli has written or will ever write.
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