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Summary: A HERO FOR OUR TIMES
Review: Jeffrey Lionel Magee is an orphan from Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, whose parents were killed when he was three, as the trolley they were riding on plunged off the trestle-bridge over the Schuylkill River, crashing into the muddy waters below. Taken in by his aunt and uncle, Jeffrey grows tired of the spiteful silence and animosity in their home and decides to run. He runs, and he runs, and he runs: straight from his miserable existence in Hollidaysburg into legendary status as the celebrated "Maniac" Magee. His rubber-soled shoes, tattered from his 200-mile run, Jeffrey decides to spend some time in Two Mills, Pennsylvania, where his innocent and idealistic views of life draw a town split asunder by racism into a real community. Jeffrey is a tall-tale figure who, without effort, rivals Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, and John Henry at their best. MANIAC MAGEE is a wonderfully delicious and humorous story, and Jerry Spinelli's hero serves as an estimable role model for contemporary generations of adolescents and adults alike.
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Summary: Maniac Magee
Review: I recently started a bookclub at my daughter's school. We selected Maniac Magee for our 1st book. The entire class truly enjoyed it. We discussed a variety of topics from racial discrimination to the acceptance of being "different." It was thoroughly enjoyable and insightful.
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Summary: Legends are made, not born
Review: They say Maniac Magee was born in a dump. They say his stomach was a cereal box and his heart a sofa spring. They say. What's truth, what's myth? It's hard to know. But when Jeffrey Lionel Magee wanders into Two Mills, PA, a legend is in the making. It's a little hard to believe, because Jeffrey's a scruffy twelve-year-old kid -- not exactly hero material. But before too long, the stories begin to circulate: about how fast and how far he can run. About how he knocks the world's first-ever "frogball" for an inside-the-park home-run bunt. About how he scores 49 touchdowns the time he plays football with the high school team, and about how he performs other feats so incredible that they earn him the nickname "Maniac." But all that is nothing compared to the bravest, craziest thing Jeffrey ever does at Two Mills -- the thing he does for the kids from East end and those from the West End.This is his story, and it's a story that is very careful not to get the facts mixed up with the truth.
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Summary: I Loved It
Review: I thought "Maniac Magee" was one of the best books ever written.It really had a great moral that you could expand on .I read this book in school and at my house and every time i found it more interesting. I would reccomend this book to any child or grown-up and you get more out of it if you disscuss it with a friend whose as read it before.
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Summary: Review for Maniac Magee
Review: Maniac Magee whose real name is Jeffrey becomes an orphan atage three and is sent to live with an aunt and uncle who will notspeak to one another. He runs away from this home at age 12 into the town called Two Mills, which is separated along racial lines into the East End and West End. In his journey to find a place to call home, he impacts the lives of many people from both sides of town, doing many crazy and fantastic things, earning him the name "Maniac." This book deals with the intense issue of racism in a town. So intense is the racism that no one ever crosses to the other side of Hector, the dividing street. Maniac, who runs into the East End where the blacks live and even lives there for a while, is asked by the people in West End what the black people are like because they themselves do not know. An example of their ignorance is when Grayson, an older white man who befriends Maniac later in the story, asks Maniac if the blacks brush their teeth. Maniac is naïve about racism, and his feelings get hurt when an old black man tells him that he is not welcome in East End. Though he has made a family in the East End, he chooses to leave to avoid harming the Beals, the black family with whom he is living with. He soon realizes what racism is and the effects that it has on this town. Though he makes an attempt to get his white supremacist and black friends together so that they can see that they really aren't that different, friendship and trust do not form until the end of the novel when Mars Bar (a black boy) is forced to save a small white boy from an oncoming trolley. The small boy and his twin brother cling to Mars Bar and won't let him go. They even go to his home in East End and beg to stay with him because he has became their hero and friend. I feel like this book can be a good tool in learning about cultural identity and racial conflict. This book deals with different races, how others see different races and how they behave because of it. It also shows Maniac crossing over racial boundaries for the betterment of himself and his community. In Enciso's article, "Cultural Identity and Response to Literature: Running Lessons From Maniac Mage," she states, "for many teachers and students, literature has provided a much-needed resource for understanding and discussing the lives of people whose histories and cultural identities are distinct from, yet interrelated with, our own lives" (532). She also states that in her research she has discovered children getting very involved in stories "as if they 'are there' and want to act on behalf of a character" (532). I feel that Maniac Magee is the kind of story where readers want to get involved. I even found myself wishing that I were there so that I could see the racial barriers being broken and the crazy things Maniac was doing. I enjoyed reading this book; I found it both entertaining and intriguing. I wanted to read it straight through and not put it down.
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Summary: fantastic!
Review: The book maniac Magee was very fascinating book. it is a book about a bor jeffery Magge.
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Summary: Maniac Magee
Review: IT WAS AN OK BOOK IT WAS A LITTLE BORING AT TIMES THOUGH. I LIKED IT THAT Maniac could go places and not to be afraid. it was ok
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Summary: I HATED THIS BOOK!
Review: I thought this was the dumbest,stupidest book ever created on the face of the earth. The thing I hated most was how much he described things that was like,dah. Then he wound't descirbed the stuff that was hard to understand. The only reason I'm giving this book a 2 star rating is because I liked how he used onimonopia. Like for example if you don't know what onimonopia is: (say outloud) pankakes hissing on the griddle. hissing is like the real sound of pancakes when you put them on a griddle. Other than that I hated this book.
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Summary: This Book is Wonderful.
Review: This is a woderful story about how of black and white can live together in peace. This is the story of Jeffery Lionel Maggee (aka Maniac)who travels through Two Mills and unties Cobbles knot,and many other amazing feats. This is a book tragedy and friendship as Maniac touches the hearts of Grayson,the Beales,and amoung others along the way. He lives his life in a buffalo pen,a base ball eqiptment room,and other weird places until he he finds a real home. He teaches others to care, for others who are different as he changes hearts in the town of Two Mills. To Maniac colors of skin doesnt matter,but to it does. This is a fabulous book and you don't need to miss it.
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Summary: this book was good book.
Review: I loved this book. It's about a boy his name is Jeffry Magee. After his parents die,he goes to his aunts and uncle,house. He doesn't like it there so he runs away. To Two Mills,PA were he meets interesting people and has unbelievable adventures! On his first day in Two Mills he meets a girl who has a suitcase full of books and Maniac ask her if she would let him barrow one. She lets him! The next day Maniac goes to were the j.v football team is playing a game during gym class and he intercepts a pass that the star quarterback was throwing to the best receiver with ONE HAND! He still has the book in the outher hand! and this is just the bigining of the amazing things maniac does. But the most amazing thing is that Maniac stays with.
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