Maniac Magee

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Summary: Maniac Magee Review
Review: As a newberry-medal-winning novel by Jerry Spinelli, Manic Magee is an extraordinary book. The book is about a boy named Jeffery Lionel Magee who ends up parentless from a trolley accident. He then goes to live with his aunt and uncle, until he runs away from the fueding between the two strict catholics. He finds himself in Two Mills, the town seperated by skin color. He discovers his home with the Beales', and notices the hatred between the "Blacks" of East End, and the "Whites" of West End. He lives the pain of death, the lonliness of homelessness, and the confusion of racism. Definetly one you should read...
On a Five-Star Scale, I would give this book a 4.25. some parts are just too tedious for my style... speaking of style, it seems different in this book than in other books by Spinelli, like "who put that hair on my toothbrush". I don't remember so many personification, which I personally don't mind, but this is just too much, and it isn't as entertaining. I would recommend this one to anyone though...

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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: Maniac Magee was a pretty good book. I would give it **** stars. It was funny, sad, and
had lots of exaggerations. It was sad when Maniac's friend Grayson passed away. It was
funny at my favorite part, when Maniac meets Piper and Russell McNab. Piper and Russell
are running away to Mexico. They argued over everything and called each other meatball
and sausage. I liked this part because it made me laugh so hard. I would recommend this
book to anyone.

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Summary: Going Going Gone
Review: I think the book Maniac Magee was the best. The main character is Jeffery Magee or Maniac. The author of this book is Jerry Spinelli. This setting takes place in Two Mills Pennsylvania. The problem of the novel is that Maniac's parents die on a train.
The first event that happened in the book was that his parents died in the famous train crash. The second event was that he had to live with his aunt and uncle. Also, the third event was when Maniac ran 200 miles to Two Mills, Pennsylvania. Then the fourth event was when he saw Amanda going to school. Next, Amanda gave Maniac him the book to read. After, Amanda brought him to her house. Also, in the seventh event Amanda's mom was scrubbing on the porch. Finally, in the eighth event was when Maniac saw Amanda's brother and sister Hester and Lester when they went inside.
I would recommend this book for people who like a lot of adventures. This book is for ages 8-12. What I disliked about the book was when Grayson died. What I liked about the book is that it shows friendship and helps people who are running away and need shelter.

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Summary: Maniac Magee
Review: Jeffery "Maniac" Magee's parents died he ran away from his aunt and uncle. Now he is homeless. Maniac Mmagee maves in with the Beales, a black family at a time when blacks and whites were segregated. Someone writes "fishbelly" on the Beale house so Maniac decides its time to leave. He then lives in the buffalo pen in the local zoo until he is discovered by a man named Grayson. Grayson gives Maniac food, shelter, and love. it doesn't work out with Grayson so Maniac finds a home with his enemy John McNab. It eventually works out for Jeffery "Maniac" Magee. This book would be best for older elementary to middle school students.
Maniac Magee ia a non-fiction book. This book has happy, sad, and even touching parts to it. hester and Lester can really get your sides hurting while the bond between grayson and Maniac will touch your heart forever. Maniac was very popular in both the east (black community) and west (white community)ends. A popular jump rope chant with little girls is " Maniac Maniac he's so cool Maniac Manic don't go to school runs all night runs all right Maniac Maniac kissed a bull."You will follow Maniac through his brave rescues and daring adventures. Fourth through eighth graders would most aprecciate this book.
This book will appeal to older kids because of the heroic adventures and simple tasks like untieing knots. This book does have some profanity.
Jerry Spinelli is an effective writer. His book is filled with emotion. It is not a factual book.
Most people who enjoy emotioal books with happy and sad parts will love Mania Magee.

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Summary: a helper
Review: maniac magee
a poor kid that lost his parents in a train crash and then he went with his uncle and then after

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Summary: Maniac MaGee
Review: i think Maniac MaGee was one of the best books i have ever read. i thkn this, because i think this book has a good message about racism.i also think it was really emotional and has a good plot to it. i recomend this book to anyone who likes a good story.

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Summary: Maniac Magee...zooooom!
Review: Maniac Magee
By Jerry Spinelli
Historical fiction/ fiction

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli, is an outstanding book! It is about a kid-Jeffrey Magee- who lives with his aunt and uncle because his parents died... Jeffrey's uncle and aunt always fight! The child runs away.

Jeffrey crosses the white line in the middle of the road of a town he wasn't sure of. After crossing it...boy, was he in trouble! Crossing to the East End of the town- where the "black" people live- was partially why Jeffrey Magee was named Maniac.
Read the book to find out the trouble Jeffrey causes and gets into!

Maniac Magee can untie any knot and run verrrrry fast. He goes on the East End, when he's supposed to be on the west End- where the "white" people live. Wow! He IS a "maniac" !

I would recommend this book to any one who likes Jerry Spinelli- a great kid's author- or even to anyone who has never even heard of him! Maniac Magee, along with Wringer and The Library Card, have emotional things in them- wheather the emotions are sad, happy, funny or angry. Go on, now! Go read the John Newberry Medal book, Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli!

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Summary: Maniac Magee
Review: A very good book for young readers. It captures your imagination and is very intersesting and i enjoyed it all the way through the book. I strongly advise you to read this book. It has a good message to about racism. I hope you read this book and i hope you enjoy iy

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Summary: maniac magee
Review: I enjoyed this book because it was detailed in telling almost everything about Maniac, the main character and how his parents passed away. It was also interesting because Maniac was able to survive alone, make friends with everyone, and able to do amazing things like untie any knot he came across.
This book is about a boy named Jeffery Magee whose parents died on a train that fell through the tracks. He was sent to live with his aunt and uncle who hated each other but wouldn't divorce because they are strict Catholics. One day Jeffery decided that he couldn't take living with them anymore so he ran away. On his journey, he lived in both black and white neighborhoods. He did some unique things that eventually made him famous and since most people didn't know his name, so they made up a new one for him, Maniac Magee.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a book that will really explain itself and to anyone who likes a surprise ending that you would hardly ever expect