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Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Winner)Paperback – November 1, 1999
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Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run--and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.
- Print length180 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Lexile measure820L
- Dimensions5.2 x 0.95 x 7.6 inches
- PublisherLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Publication dateNovember 1, 1999
- ISBN-100316809063
- ISBN-13978-0316809061
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- Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; second edition (November 1, 1999)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 180 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0316809063
- ISBN-13 : 978-0316809061
- Reading age : 9 - 11 years, from customers
- Lexile measure : 820L
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.2 x 0.95 x 7.6 inches
- Best Sellers Rank:#2,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #741 inChildren's Books (Books)
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Growing up, Jerry Spinelli was really serious about baseball. He played for the Green Sox Little League team in his hometown of Norristown, Pennsylvania, and dreamed of one day playing for the major leagues, preferably as shortstop for the New York Yankees.
One night during high school, Spinelli watched the football team win an exciting game against one of the best teams in the country. While everyone else rode about town tooting horns in celebration, Spinelli went home and wrote "Goal to Go," a poem about the game's defining moment, a goal-line stand. His father submitted the poem to the Norristown Times-Herald and it was featured in the middle of the sports page a few days later. He then traded in his baseball bat for a pencil, because he knew that he wanted to become a writer.
After graduating from Gettysburg College with an English degree, Spinelli worked full time as a magazine editor. Every day on his lunch hour, he would close his office door and craft novels on yellow magazine copy paper. He wrote four adult novels in 12 years of lunchtime writing, but none of these were accepted for publication. When he submitted a fifth novel about a 13-year-old boy, adult publishers once again rejected his work, but children's publishers embraced it. Spinelli feels that he accidentally became an author of children's books.
Spinelli's hilarious books entertain both children and young adults. Readers see his life in his autobiography Knots in My Yo-Yo String, as well as in his fiction. Crash came out of his desire to include the beloved Penn Relays of his home state of Pennsylvania in a book, while Maniac Magee is set in a fictional town based on his own hometown.
When asked if he does research for his writing, Spinelli says: "The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first 15 years of my life turned out to be one big research project. I thought I was simply growing up in Norristown, Pennsylvania; looking back now I can see that I was also gathering material that would one day find its way into my books."
On inspiration, the author says: "Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey."
Spinelli lives with his wife and fellow writer, Eileen, in West Chester, Pennsylvania. While they write in separate rooms of the house, the couple edits and celebrates one another's work. Their six children have given Jerry Spinelli a plethora of clever material for his writing.
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Critiques made by others:
1. Confusion
Some students have difficulty undertanding parts of the book. The book is very detailed which has different effects on different students. Some get confused and bored because of the details while others like the details because it helps them understand where Maniac is coming from. I start this book off talking about Tall tales and exaggeration. Then we read the intro which reads like a Tall-tale: "Some say...". This clear some of the confusion.
2. Language
I am VERY cautious of language. I get very frustrated when authors (be it books or screen plays) add in language. I think it takes more craft to allude to language without actually using it. I have read many reviews concerned with the language. I do not feel that this is a concern in this book. The book does mention trash-talking. And although there are some examples (very mild by any standard), the majority was alluded to ( "they cursed" or "trash-talking" instead of using the actual words].
3. Racism
I noticed that a few people critized the author for making very racist statements when he described the different colors of black and white people. I think that these people read too much into this. I have friends of many different colors, countries, and cultures. We have had MANY discussions talking about our true colors. We laughed at the terms black and white, because they truly do not describe us.
Also, I know there is concern that the town is racist. Unfortunately, there are still places like this in the U.S. I have found that this has started some really good discussions in the classroom.
Jerry Spinelli is an award-winning author of several books for children. Maniac Magee is arguably his best novel so far. He takes an unflinching look at the worlds kids grow up in.
Maniac Magee, with death seeming to follow his footsteps no matter where he goes, is one of the best hardluck heroes you'll ever read about. This is a great book to read to your 3rd and 4th graders -- and even beyond if your family enjoys sharing books. I've read this to all my children, and I've constantly had to buy new copies (I've sinced picked up copies of the book at every used book store I ever find them in) because I'm habitually putting the previous copies into the hands of other people. Spinelli's prose hits the page simple and direct, and the emotions are raw and honest.
Grab a copy of MANIAC MAGEE. Find a kid in your family who hasn't read the story (and you may even find some who simply want to hear the tale again), and read it out loud. This book is meant to be read out loud. Bite-size chapters, imaginative action and thrilling encounters keep kids totally locked into the story.
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Phân かりやすい cảm động がなかった.
"Butterscotch Krimpets" っておいしいんだろうか.
ピザアレルギーって mặt trắng いんだろうか. Nhật Bản で ngôn ったらカレーアレルギーみたいなも の
だろうか.
“モンスターハウス” という ánh họa でも tựa たようなネタを quan たけど, thiên khuất な nhân vật の gia の đắp mà が
Khủng ろしく thấy えるんだろうか.
あまり phổ biến tính の ある nội dung ではないと tư った. もしかすると, ngữ り khẩu が mặt trắng い の かもしれない.
ただ, そこまで の tiếng Anh lực はない の であまり lặc しめなかった.