Maniac Magee

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Summary: !!##*****Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli is AWESOME*****##!!
Review: This book was a very good book. There are only a few books that keep me right into the book wondering what is going to happen next, and this is one of them. People who hate books that are separated into parts; this would not be a good book. People like me, who like books of people uniting and coming together, this would be a good book. Not only did I love this book in some ways I did not like this. At the beginning of each part, new things were happening that I did not get, but either way I loved this book. This is book tells of a boy named Jeffery Magee, who later will be known as Maniac, comes to a town that is divided into two parts, the black side and the white side. Maniac comes to the black side and the people who see him are astonished because never had there been a white boy that crossed over to the black side. To see what happens to this town or to this boy you should read the book Maniac Magee.

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Summary: Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli
Review: . This book is a very good book. Even my brother, who only reads for school likes this book. In Maniac Magee, the town, Two Mills, is split into two parts, the West End and the East End. The blacks lived in the East End and the whites the West End. Hector Street divides the West End and The East End. When Jeffrey Magee, a white, renamed Maniac Magee came to Two Mills, because he ran away from a town, Bridgeport, he came into the East End. He doesn't know about the East End and the West End, and doesn't care. When he gets there he runs into Mars Bars, a leader of a gang in the East End, who tries to beat him up and calls him names because he is white. When he goes to the West End for the first time, he intercepts a football thrown from the star quarterback, Brain Denehy, to the best receiver, James "Hands" Down, then ran all the way to the other touchdown zone without being touched, then kicked the ball better and farther than anyone in that town ever has, and he did it all in one hand. Then later that day, when he comes to a baseball team's practice, he bunts and gets a home run on a pitch thrown by a pitcher who has struck out everybody he has pitched to. Then he saves a white kid who was being thrown over a fence by some high school kids, into Finsterwald's back yard, which is the only place that kids would never go even for [money]. When Maniac unties Cobble's Knot, at Cobble's Corner on Hector Street, which many people have tried to untie but can't, he still unties it. The knot was 4 and a half blocks long when it was untied. In Two Mills Maniac becomes a legend because of all the things he did but he does something even bigger. If you like books about Racism or kids doing amazing things you should read this book.

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Summary: Maniac Magee is an Excellent Book!
Review: I read the book Maniac Magee for an English class in College. I found it to be very interesting, so I started reading it to some of my students at the daycare I work at. They loved it. It is a very good book. The book deals with a boy that seems to have no home to go to. The boy, Maniac, is fun loving and wins the heart of almost all the adults he meets. He is gifted at sports, making him the awe of all the children in town. Maniac is also very kind. He helps out many children with his talents. The one he is most popular for is standing up to bullies. He also has one very unique feature. Maniac doesn't understand racism. The town he lives in is split between white and black people. The people stay on their side of the town. Only Maniac dares to cross the invisible line. He makes friends on both sides of the town. Could it be that this little boy is the one who finally brings the town together?

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Summary: Ryan's Maniac Review
Review: This contempoary realism, Newbery medal winner book is about a young boy who becomes an orphan at age three. Maniac soon made a name for himself and became a legend. All the children in the neighborhood were always bragging about how fast he could run, how high he could jump,and also how no tied knot would be too tough for Maniac. Maniac had several traits,several different homes, and also a great tradition of always having a book in his hands. Maniac was amazing throughout the book doing thigs that were against all odds, such as winning races by running backwards, and many others. The one thing I found most important about the novel is what Maniac did for the east and the west side.
I thought this was a very exciting novel, one that stands out because of what a great role model Maniac was for all of the people.This novel kept me well entertained because I was always wondering what that crazy Maniac was going to do next.This book could also be very inspirational for all readers.

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Summary: To Be Held With King, Koontz, and Grisham
Review: Jerry Spinelli's magnum opus Maniac Magee should be read once, as a young teen; again, as a cynical adult, and then once more as age begins to settle in more actively. I'm a 20 year old student and can say with the most severe honesty that this is my favorite book of all time - Spinelli writes with clarity, painting in bold strokes of humor, sentimentality, adventure, mystery, heartbreak, and acceptance. I have no doubts that the Newberry Award was given for Spinelli's teen-targeted race relation meditations, but beyond the moral messages and family-oriented emotion, it's a ripping yarn. Spinelli, while never having quite reached the popularity of another Maniac Magee, has a true gift - the gift to spin a timeless tale (in this instance of the quasi-folk variety), and I would recommend most of his other books for young adults. I'm no longer a young adult, but you can be sure that my son or daughter will be reading Jerry spinelli...in fact, it's already required reading in many elementary and middle schools. Spinelli joins a growing list of contemporary authors whose masterworks are the new Glass Menegerie, Sound and Fury or Portrait of an Artist: works like Kings The Stand or Grishams A Time To Kill are already becoming embedded in the lexicon of required novels and teaching tools...and rightly so. Spinelli teaches us about so much, and yet allows to have a rollicking time along the way.

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Summary: Maniac Magee
Review: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli is a wonderfully written novel that explores several delicate topics in a lighthearted manner. The main character, Jeffrey Lionel Magee, must deal with not only the loss of his parents, but also feeling unwanted by his relatives. Due to feeling unwanted by his Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan, Maniac runs away and finds himself in a variety of sticky situations. The situations range from gangs to racial prejudice. The way that Maniac befriends Amanda Beale and the how he becomes friends with Mars Bar helps students learn how to overcome racial prejusdice. He teaches an old man how to read and even rescues two young boys and convinces them not to run away from their home. Maniac tries to unite the East End (Whites) and the West End (Blacks) by getting them to see past the color of a persons skin and see a person.
This book is a wonderful tool to open up discussions. My students loved discussing the "Finsterwallies" and envisioning the "frogball". Young teens are excited to read this book simply to find out what is going to happen to Maniac next. He gets himself into some hilarious situations and some sad situations. The short, fast moving chapters help to keep the reader motivated. Everyday when we would stop reading, my students would beg for more time to read. I think that Jerry Spinelli did a fabulous job writing this novel and my students and I absolutely loved it!

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Summary: THIS BOOK IS AWESOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I loved this book you should read it!!
I did it in school and I then wrote a letter to Jerry Spinelli.

P.S. READ IT READ IT READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Maniac Megee
Review: No doubt one of the top five books I've ever read in my life. I've read this twice, and I loved it both times. I'm 99.9% shure anyone who reads this will love it. I've even pursuaded someone who thought this book was really bad to read it, and I know they already read it twice.

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Summary: Maniac Magee's book, Artur Feghali review
Review: This book is great for kids with 12 and 13 years old. This book shows conflicts that happen in real life and how to resolve it in a reational way. It gives good exemples that happen to everyone in the family. The only negetive exemple of the book was when Maniac Magee ran from his uncles house. This is a bad influence that some 9 or 10 year old boys might follow the same exemple in a way to resolve his problems at home. The rest of the book is very good teaching and mixing with entretainment of Maniac Magee's adventures. The part in the book when Maniac get to do the same things as `the old dead zoo maneger was very fictional.I gave one less star because of this. The book looked like a beauty and the beast story when everything finish with a happy ending.

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Summary: Maniac Magee AF report
Review: This is a great book to show conflics that happen in real life. This books is great for kids of 12 and 13 years old because it connects to you and with some problems you might have at home. The only bad side of the book I saw, was the bad exemple that Maniac Magee gave by ranning from his problems at home. This is an exemple that can influence kids under 11 years. The rest of the book shows good influence like how to be a citizen, good learner, freind and how to deal with hard situations in life. The book is also verygood because it joins the good influence and the entertaining of Maniac's adventures.