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Summary: melissa/cindy goddess of the universe
Review: we love this book! it's about this boy that loses his family in a tradgic accident. he is forced to live with unhappy aunt and uncle. they fight over everything,even the toster!he leaves and is out on the street. he finds a nice family in the black neighborhood.but nobdy likes the idea of that.
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Summary: Maniac Magee
Review: Maniac Magee was an ok book. I liked the way that Maniac united Two Mills. The problem was that the story ended too quickly. It left me more questions than answers. The book never actually told how Maniac united the blacks and whites and eliminated the racisim.
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Summary: Maniac
Review: Jeffery Magee, a home less boy, lost his parents when their trolley plunged off its tracks when he was three. He went to live with his aunt and uncle and ran 200 miles to Two Mills because they didn't get along. He earned the name maniac when he brought the segregated town together. He was the first person roamed both sides of the town unaware of what he was doing. This is a really good book, and I think you should read it if not already.
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Summary: MANIAC MAGEE
Review: My overall oppinion about this book was that I thought it was iteresting and a good book for all ages. Five things I likes about this book.One was I liked some of the people in it.Two I liked the way Maniac acted.Three I like Jerry Spinelli books.Four I liked how the beals just took Maniac in even though he was white.Five I liked the ending. Five things I didn't like about the book.One I didn't like how prejudice some of the people were.Two I didn't like how the girl acted at the begining.Three I didn't like Maniac's aunt and uncle.Four I didn't like the town.Five I didn't like some of the towns people. I think anybody who reads would like this book and even if you don't like to read ,like me, you would like this book.
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Summary: The best book i have ever read!!!!
Review: His parents died, and then he went to live with his uncle and aunt. They always fought about things so he ran away. This book got my attention in the first chapter. I recommend this book for at least teenagers and adults. There are some complicated parts in the story. The story stays on track and always tells about the same thing. This was one of the best books I have ever read.
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Summary: A wouderful book
Review: The title is Maniac Magee, and the author is Jerry Spinelli. The award that Maniac Magee won was John Newbery Medal. I give this book 5 stars. Here is an excerpt, Mars bar Thompson held up his candy bar, an inch away from maniac's lips.Wanna bite thanks dead silence along the street. Maniac has done the unthinkable. The main characters are Maniac Magee, and Mars Bars. I think this book was good because it had some action in it. I think you will like Maniac because he is brave and kind.
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Summary: Maniac Magee
Review: Maniac Magee Is one of the best books I've ever read, it has your attention from beginning to end. If you like adventurous books you should read this book. My favorite part was when Maniac got to be friends with Mars Bar Thompson. You'll like most of the other characters too. I definetely rate this book five stars.
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Summary: The BEST Book
Review: I am a very picky book reader! But this book is now my favorite! It's humor, realistic charecters, and much more inspired me to read more of Spinelli's books!
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Summary: Maniac Rescued, Finds A Home!
Review: Maniac is a white kid who runs away from his aunt and uncle's house because there was no love. Then he meets the Beale family, who are black, and he lives with them for a while. But he doesn't stay there forever. Read the book if you want to find out what happens next. The book is about overcoming prejudice, finding love, happiness, and the meaning of home. The book holds the reader's interest from the beginning to the end.
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Summary: Looking into non-traditional families
Review: Jerry Spinelli breaks down the stereotypes of what a "traditional" family should be in his novel Maniac Magee. Jeffrey Magee, (known as Maniac for some outlandish feats he performs) a strong-willed boy, uses his ingenuity to overcome adversity and find himself a home.Maniac is orphaned at three and moves in with his aunt and uncle who hate each other. Subsequently, they don't even talk to one another. After eight years of this non-existence, Maniac runs away from home. Maniac literally runs in search of a home. He becomes part of several families that he meets in the town of Two Mills. Suzanne Bunker says, "We are not the Cleavers, we have single-families; step-families; adoptive and foster families; children raised by grandparents, aunts and uncles; gay and lesbian families; and individuals of all ages living together, unrelated biologically but still a family" (116). The latter mirrors the situations in which Maniac finds himself. The first family with whom Maniac lives is the Beales. They are an African-American family living in the East End of Two Mills. They are a 'traditional' family (mom, dad, big sister Amanda, little sister Hester and little brother Lester), and they welcome him into this family with open arms; his skin color is of no significance to the Beales. On his first night there, Maniac checks the front door of the house:number 728.Maniac has a home. He is part of a family. He loves the Beales and the East End and all the colors of the East End. "He couldn't understand why they called themselves black ...he saw gingersnap and light fudge and dark fudge and acorn and butter rum and cinnamon and burnt orange. But they were never licorice which to him was real black" (Spinelli 51). Unfortunately, because of his white skin, not everyone loves Maniac in the East End. Maniac feels that he has to leave his beloved Beales to protect them. He runs until he meets Grayson, a caretaker at the zoo. Grayson, an older man, takes Maniac in and gives him a home. As Suzanne Bunkers comments, this mirrors a grandparent raising the child (116). At Thanksgiving, Maniac prays, "thank you for this warm house and our own little family" (Spinelli 108). He goes outside and paints "101" on the front door, justifying their existence and their home. Sadly, Grayson dies, and once again Maniac is orphaned. Maniac runs again until he finds another family, the McNabs. This family, from the West End, consists of a drunken father and three neglected sons. Maniac feels that these children live like orphans. Maniac tries to instill right from wrong in the McNab children but wonders, "how he could act as a father to these boys when he himself ached to be somebody's son?" (155). This is not a good environment for Maniac. The McNabs are racist, and Maniac cannot live with them. He feels pride for the East End. He runs away from the McNabs to the zoo, until Amanda Beale comes to call him home. "You are coming home...to sleep in your room...not here. This is not your home"(183). Maniac is happy to go home. "Children's literature is increasingly demonstrating that families cannot be so easily dichotomized as 'traditional' or 'non-traditional' and no one family is 'normal', 'typical', or representative of all families" (Bunkers 128). Spinelli embraces these new types of families that mirror our culture in his novel and because of this, he is able to give a boy a home to call his own. Cited works: Spinelli,Jerry. Maniac Magee. Boston:Little, Brown and Company,1990. Bunkers, Suzanne. "We Are Not The Cleavers": Images of Non-traditional Families in Children's Literature"The Lion and the Unicorn 16.1 (1992):115-133.
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