Maniac+Magee+Reading+Group

This page is for the reading group reading //Maniac Magee.// This page will represent the book as we read it. Please see the discussion to view the comprehension skills these students use as they read this amazing book!

Read to page 184 (end of book) and have nine skills used by the next meeting. Meeting on Wednesday the 4. And don't forget posting one of your skills on the Wiki!!

This book is being read by Bryson, Hannah, Casey, Jillian, Henry, Devyn, Michael A., Matt H.

Maniac Magee ( first called Jeffrey Magee ) is about a boy who runs away from his Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan on one concert night for school. Now his life has a lot of twists and turns. He meets new friends and falls into new adventures full of suspense and happiness.

The Books Website

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Here's Holidaysburg Pennsylvania, the place Maniac Magee originally started out! Sadly, Two Mills is not a real town.

This is a picture of Jerry Spinelli the author of maniac magee.



[|about the author of Maniac Magee]

"Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a trolley 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. And 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. "Writing that bursts with creativity, enthusiasm, and hope for future; in short it's a celebration of life." -Booklist

Other great books by Jerry Spinelli

Space Station Seventh Grade- "A rich, rewarding novel about adolescence achingly honest, excruciatingly funny." -Kirkus

Jason & Marceline- "Spinelli's teenagers are fresh and funny, sometimes crude, sometimes poignant, and always very real" -Publishers Weekly

Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush? "Hilarious....A lively absorbing novel" -Horn Book