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Summary: Critical Reflection
Review: Jerry Spinelli's, Maniac Magee, is the tale of a boy named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, who loses his parents at the age of three and is forced to live with his aunt and uncle. Jeffrey after eight years of living with his aunt and uncle gets fed up with how they are "separated," but still together and decides to runaway. He ends up two-hundred miles away in a little town called Two-Mills, where the whites and blacks are divided into the West End (whites), and the East End (blacks). Jeffrey embarks on the journey of a lifetime and learns many life lessons from all those that he encounters and becomes a town legend, earning the nickname, "maniac", in the process. Throughout the story Jeffrey does not have a stable place to live, he moves around through the whole story. With this idea in mind one is lead to believe that having a home and family is the center focus of this book, as you read in to the second chapter you realize that there is also another focus, racism. Not much is mentioned of Jeffrey's biological parents except when the author gives details of how they were killed, but you can tell that Jeffrey wanted a place to call home, and he did not know when he found a home and a family, how to deal with the fact that he was of a different color. Home, the one thing that Jeffrey so desperately wanted seemed to dwindle away every time he came close to keeping it. At eleven he could no longer bear living with his aunt and uncle who for eight years lived as a separated married couple. They had two of everything. So when he ran away he was in search of a new life, a whole new family. He ran away, two-hundred miles away to the town of Two-Mills, where he ended up with the Beale family. He felt love and a distinct feeling of home there, and he had a address now, which to him meant he had a permanent home. But something stood in the way of this loving home and new address, his color. He never really noticed that the entire town was divided into East End and West End, until he went out to play as any child would. This went on for months and months, until one day an old man told him to go back to his kind. So for the first time Jeffrey "Maniac" Magee realized that he was very different from the people in which he called his family were. This is explained thoroughly by Jean Baudrilland, from the Lion and the Unicorn (21.2 (1997) 215-229, she calls this personal discovery. This "personal discovery" she talks about is realized when Jeffrey recognizes that the people one the East End of Two-Mills hated him not because he was good at everything he did, but because of the fact that his skin color was different from the people that lived on that end. He loved the Beale family but could not see them terrorized because he was living with them, and once again he left becoming amongst the homeless again. His next "home" came when he met an elderly man by the name of Grayson, who lived in the baseball basement. They became real good friends and Jeffrey felt like he had a home again, when he put the numbers "1-0-1" on the basement door. Signifying that he again had a place to call home. That ended abruptly with the death of his longtime friend, so he was once again thrust back into society as homeless. But in the end he realized that he never should have left the first true home he had with the Beales, and so that is how the story ended with him being content that this was where he was supposed to be.
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Summary: Maniac Magee
Review: Most people think Maniac Magee is special. At least that is what they think he is. Maniac Magee grew up in an ordinary house, having ordinary parents, on a ordinary street. Until his parents heart what Maniac Magee did for the black. Unitl his parents had a train crash and died. Everyone knows that he is special. He could run faster than anyone, untie the impossible knot, and could hit anyone's fastball with a bat. The main thing that he is famous for is what he did for the East and West end. I think this is a good book for all readers because it touches your what Maniac Magee did for the black. You can say that it is fantasy or even mysterious, but I think it is a love story.
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Summary: A Wounderful Read!
Review: Maniac Magee is a wounderful book! It is about a kid named Jeffrey Lionel Magee or Manic, who lives in a town where only one street separates the white people's neighborhood from the black people's neighborhood. Maniac is white and when he goes to live with a black family alot of people dissaprove of it. Maniac is not racist and dosn't understand why some people dislikes others because of the color of their skin. When a awful thing happens to the family he's living with, Maniac blames it on himself, so he runs away. Lots of things happen when he's out on the streets. He meets new friends and learns about the true meaning of friendship. Does Maniac go back to his family? You will only find out if you read this fabulous book that will truely captivate you.
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Summary: hello land twelers and Mr. Maniac Magee
Review: As king of Atlantis I enjoyed this book very much but I do not know the meaning of how you say...running I have counseld whith my wisefish and we have decided that it is proble a for of transpertation. I commend him for not bein racial and for trying to teach others the same., very corages of him. and also for making freinds out of his enemys. and no we did not sink atlantis on purpouse.sinsirly malodok ¥¥ P.S. i'm not one i'll be 12,749,208 yr on june
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Summary: Cool book
Review: I think the book Maniac Magee is a very well written book. Jerry Spinelli is a very good author. I like the book because it has a interesting storyline. It is sad because the boy is all alone and he doesn't have a lot of friends. I think that everybody should read this book because it tells kids that a lot of other kids have problems worse than their own.
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Summary: He really is a maniac!
Review: Do you know anyone who could run 200 miles in only 51 days? Do you know anyone who could make a home run out of a bunt? Maniac Magee did, he is not your typical kid. He ran away from his aunt's and uncle's house at a young age. He was excepted to stay with blacks and whites. Even though a lot of blacks were mean to him because of his skin color. Maniac Magee thought that this was wrong. Will he be able to bring blacks and whites together? Read the book to find out!
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Summary: Maniac Magee
Review: I rated my book a three because it was a good book, but I've read better books. There is no point, to me that someone would write this book. It was cool because in a way he kind of lived everywhere and ate everywhere. The age group I would put this book in is ten-thirteen. Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders should like this book because alot of kids like to run. I'd recommend this book to someone who likes books about kids lives and if they like to run. I would not recommend this book to someone older because there is really no point to it, but that is just my opinion.
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Summary: Maniac Magee
Review: There are several main characters in this novel. For the first, the most important character's name is Magee. His real name is Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but people called him Maniac Magee. There is a black girl whose name is Amanda. She became a friend of Magee. There is Mars Bar who is a black guy. There is Hands Down who is a white guy. And Magee lived with Grayson, an old white man, for a while. The genre of this novel is fairy tale and adventure. Magee was born in an ordinary house but his parents died when he was only 3 years old. He moved to his aunt's house in Pensylvania. His aunt and uncle loved him very much but they hated each other. So Magee ran away from them at the age of 11. He met a black girl whose name was Amanda. They became friends and he started to live with her family. They were happy but had some problems because all members in Amanda's family were black except Magee. He was white. He decided to leave there in order not to give any disadvantages to them. In the novel, Magee met Mars Bar who was a black guy and Hands Down who was a white one. Magee wanted to be friends with them but, traditionally, they couldn't be friends due to the differences of their skin color. Actually, Magee didn't care about that and he had some special abilities so, they called him "Maniac Magee". Mars Bar and Hands Down fought with each other. However, they became friends thanks to Magee. At the end, Magee met Amanda again and came back to her house. Actually, Grayson's entering upon this novel is hard to understand. After Magee went out from Amanda's house, he met Grayson who was an old white man. They had a good time. They taught to each other new things. For example, Magee taught Grayson how to read and write. And he taught Magee how to throw "stop ball". They spent time together and loved each other, but Grayson died because of his age. This novel is about "Racism" and "Personality". If this novel had focused on "Personality" more than "Racism", Grayson would have been a very important character. But the main subject of this novel "Racism" rather than "Personality". Therefore, it's much better without Grayson's entering. It can make readers confused. Maniac Magee is originally for adolescents. It treats the racism problem but it's not too difficult to understand. The main subject is a difficult one but this novel describes the world of children (or adolescent). Thus, they can comprehend the meaning of this novel easily. This novel, at the same time, can be good for adults. They can think the racism problem again and more deeply than before. In fact, the racism problems are caused by adults, not by children. This novel gives people opportunities which make them examine themselves and think other problems which were also happened by them. There for this novel is worth to reading though it has some mistakes.
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Summary: Maniac Magee- a Kid Who Cares
Review: The story is mainly about a kid who runs away and ends up in a family who cares about him. The story shows love, caring, and sadness. I like the book because it is so sad. The author shows how people can care about others.
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Summary: Funny book for kids
Review: The book is about unbelieveable boy. Actually, it's a fairy tale. The main character-Jeffrey Liinel Magee got a strange personality. He could do anything other kids couldn't. That's why he became to be called "Maniac Magee". It's also about discrimination between Black and White. Anyway, you will see at the end of the book that friendship can make it better. I recommend this book for ages 10 and up. The story should be interesting for you. When you finish a chapter, you might want to know what will happen in the next chapter. However, you might get lost in some parts becuase Maniac always runs on. Sometimes, you might wonder where is he now!!! If you want to know how it is -interesting or confusing, read it!!!
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