“The metaphorical style is a brave change from the realism of Spinelli’s other books, while fans of his earlier, tongue-in-cheek, streetwise tone will find it also an integral part of this story–ballast for the mythic, shifting picture of Maniac’s year on the run.” – Kirkus Reviews He was special all right, and this is his story, and it’s a story that is very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth. Ma-niac, Ma-niac kissed a bull!”īut the thing Maniac Magee is best known for is what he did for the kids from the East Side and those from the West Side. Ma-niac, Ma-niac, don’t go to school, runs all night, runs all right. Little girls jumping rope chant, “Ma-niac, Ma-niac, he’s so cool. Even today kids talk about how fast he could run how he hit an inside-the-park “frog” homer and how no knot, no matter how snarled, would stay that way once he began to untie it. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. He wasn’t born with the name Maniac Magee. Curriculum subjects: Teen Life: Family, Teen Life: Prejudice, Personal Development: Loss, Personal Development: Self-Discovery
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