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Summary: 10 year- old reader
Review: I read this book when I was in fourth grade. It didn't make any sense. I don't suggest it. It was kind of good, but one thing happened after the other. It was way too confusing for my age readers!!
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Summary: Not everything is perfect
Review: I picked Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli for my school book report because the cover looked interesting. It showed a picture of feet running. Inside the book jacket was a poem that read:
"Ma-niac, Ma-niac
He's so cool
Ma-niac, Ma-niac
Don't go to school
Runs all night
Runs all right
Ma-niac, Ma-niac
Kissed a bull."It looked very interesting and funny. I really liked the book because the main character, Maniac Magee, was funny and smart and cared about and helped people. You really want him to be happy. Maniac Magee (whose really name was Jeffrey) became a homeless kid who lost his parents in a trolley accident. He wants a real home with a family and that is what he looks for in the story. He's really unusual. He is famous for running everywhere. He's so fast no one can beat him. He's really good at sports. He even hit a "frog" ball and turned it into an inside the park homerun. He can untie very complicated knots. Little kids bring him all their troubles and he helps solve them. He wins a lifetime supply of pizza but he's allergic to pizza! Everyone loves him--well, almost everyone. That's what bothers him and keeps him running all night.
Maniac doesn't see any bad in people. He keeps thinking they're nice. But some are so mean that he finally figures out they don't like him. He blames himself. Maniac meets a girl, Amanda. She has lots of books and he really wants one. She lets him have one to read. When he returns it she invites him to live with her family in the East End. Only black people live there. Maniac doesn't see any difference between the black and white people. When he sees there are some who don't understand each other he tries to get them to like each other. But this doesn't happen very easily. After Maniac runs away from Amanda's house, he lives with the buffalos at the park zoo. One day he meets Grayson who used to be a Minor league pitcher. Grayson and Maniac become really close like grandson and grandfather. They do everything together. You'll have to read what happens next. It's very emotional.
Maniac spends time with the McNabb family in the West End. This is where the white people live. When he's there he tries to bring the East End and West End kids together. One time it doesn't work. Another time it does work.
Maniac runs away from all of his temporary homes because he wants things to be perfect. He learns that not everything can be perfect. Does he find what he wants in the end? You'll have to read the book to find out.
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Summary: A serious tale about racism wrapped up in innocence
Review: Maniac Magee is a truely sensational book. It follows Maniac Magee, a curious boy living on the streets invades Two Mills, a town that's racially segregated by a single street. He takes his home in many different places. He controversially lived with a black family in the black part of Two Mills. He lived with the white children, he lived in a barn. The extroidinairy thing about him is that he didn't just cross the line of racial segregation, he erased it. Be prepared for a truely amazing story.
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Summary: My Review
Review: The basic plot of Maniac Magee is a kid who can't find a family, when he thinks he does, either he doesn't want to hurt them or someone dies. I think this book was a great book. One, because after every chapter the book makes the reader ask questions. Two, because it teaches some sort of a leason. The lesson it teaches is that when a kid can't see the difference between black and white, he isn't liked as much. I think the character is believable because he fits into the story, and he has good dialog in the story so you can see a movie of the book in your head. I would recommend this book to just about anybody who likes a humorous book, and a good read.
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Summary: the goodest book
Review: I read Maniac Magee . It's a really cool book that was published in 1990 by Scholastic Inc. It's my favorite book by Jerry Spinelli.
It's about a boy who wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. His real name was Jeffrey Lionel Magee. When his parents died his life took a change and so did his name. He was a legend, it was said that he was born in a dump, his stomach a cereal box, his heart a sofa spring. He lived in two different loving homes and one home not so loving throughout the story but not for very long. Maniac Magee mingled with blacks, and he mingled with whites. He didn't understand racism.
I think this book strongly suggests that there is no diffrence between races. This story shows the joys and sorrows of running free.
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Summary: Maniac Magee
Review: Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli
Published by Scholastic Inc. Boston
Copyright: 1990 Jeffrey MageeÕs parents died when he was three years old. He went to his Aunt and UncleÕs house for eight years, and then ran away to where he used to live (the Two Mills) for the rest of his life, living in different peopleÕs houses. He went to one nice black family, Then with an old man who used to be a baseball player, and a very rough family.
I would definitely recommend this book because it is fast moving and exciting, it is realistic and there is not very much violence.
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Summary: Maniac Maggee
Review: this is a good book. a must read. once you start you can not stop
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Summary: Maniac Mcgee
Review: This book is excellent. It is funny, sad, and an all around good book. I think everybody should read this book at least once in thier life. I would definetly recomend you should read this book. I will give it five stars.
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Summary: This was the worst book I have ever read.
Review: I absolutey hated this book. It was not only boring, but I hated Jerry Spinelli's style of writing. He would always go into great detail like the reader was stupid. I would rather try to read War and Peace than have to go through the torture of reading this book again.
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Summary: CRAZY MAN
Review: The character in this story is Maniac Magee, but his name isn't really Maniac Magee. when he was born, he was known as Jeffrey Lionel Magee. His parnets died nad that's when his life changed and so did his name.
the best known thing that Maniac or "Jeffrey " Magee is known for is for what he did for the kids from the east side and those from the west side. But there still a puzzeling question. Whyndid he help those kids and why was he near those areas. If you want to find out more go to your local libary and check it out. You'll never know what will surprise you.
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