What is maniac magee?

Answer 1

Maniac Magee is about this kid that has gone through of a lot of hard things in his life like his parents died and other things but i am not going to tell you because you have to read the book to figure out. Maniac's name is Jeffry Lynnole Magee but his nickname is Maniac magee Jeffry's life he thinks just keeps getting worse and worse because every where he goes he has bad luck. Maniac is a runner kinda kid when he runs away he does the acually running part to. He faces some challenges and some bullyies but he knows how to take care of them and aperently he races them. Well that's all i am telling you for now have fun reading the book if you do

Ryan James

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Answer 2

"Maniac Magee" is a novel by Jerry Spinelli that tells the story of Jeffrey Lionel Magee, a young boy with extraordinary athletic abilities who becomes a legend in his town for his daring feats and good deeds. The book explores themes of racism, homelessness, and belonging.

Answer 3

Jeffrey "Maniac" Magee is a young boy who had to deal with the horrific death of his parents. After their death, he ran away from home and found himself in a small town plagued by racism. This town was literally divided in half by the main road. The black people lived on one side, and the white people lived on the other. The two groups did not even imagine crossing the main road. Maniac, however, does not understand or believe in the racism that is felt by this town. So, he travels throughout the town to try to change the beliefs of the people who live there.

Answer 4

Some kids just don't have it easy, and Jeffrey "Maniac" Magee was one of those kids. When Jeffrey was only three years old his parents were the tragic victims of a famous trolley accident, leaving him an orphan. He was sent to live with his Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan, a contemptuous couple who lived in the same house yet led completely divided lives. After eight years of living among their hatred and anger, Jeffrey had had enough, and so, in the middle of a school concert, he jumped off the stage, and began running - running and running and running, until he had run away into an unknown town with unknown people and soon, a series of awesome adventures that would eventually lead him "home."

Jeffrey's first adventure began when he wandered into the town of Two Mills, a town where blacks and whites were separated physically by only a train track, but were socially divided by years of fears and assumptions about each other. He arrived in the East End one morning, and there he met Amanda Beale, a precocious girl with a suitcase full of books who was on her way to school. With a bit of persuasion, Jeffrey convinced Amanda to lend him a book if he promised to return it. Although he ran into some trouble in the shape of an angry East End bully with a sweet tooth named Mars Bar, he miraculously got the book back into Amanda's hands, and in turn, she invited him over for dinner. Amanda's family didn't fuss over the fact that Jeffrey was white, and when they found out he had no home to return to that night, he was invited to stay. Amanda's little siblings, Hester and Lester, simply adored Jeffrey, and he pulled more than his weight around the house for Mr. and Mrs. Beale. Jeffrey finally felt at home.

When he was not getting Hester and Lester ready for school or borrowing books from Amanda or tidying up his room, Jeffrey was running around the town and building himself quite a reputation. He impressed (and enraged)

people from both sides of town with daring feats such as daringly going onto the Finsterwald's forbidden front steps, stealing the football from the best high school quarterback in the middle of a game, untying a giant, impossible knot at Cobble's Corner, and hitting every single ball that the unbeatable bully, Giant John McNab, sent flying his way. Of all these amazing feats, the most audacious was the ease at which he seemed to wander back and forth across the tracks into both ends of Two Mills. He became known as "Maniac" around town; he was brave and unstoppable. Unstoppable, that is, until one hot summer day when everyone on East End was out cooling off in a broken fire hydrant, and an old coot told Maniac he wasn't wanted there, that he should go back to his own kind. Maniac loved the Beale's so much and feared that his being there would cause them pain, and so again, he ran away, never to return again.

Maniac had nowhere to go, and so he went to the best place he could imagine himself living - at the zoo. Although he spent some time living with a buffalo mother and her baby, his plans began to change when an old zoo attendant found him cold, hungry, and in need of some care. The old man, Grayson, took a liking to Maniac, and they began to develop a friendship. Grayson told Maniac of his days playing in the Minor Leagues, and Maniac gave Grayson a very special gift - he taught him how to read. Their relationship was wonderful, and although they did not have much, they thoroughly enjoyed the simpler things in life - going on walks, eating Butterscotch Krimpets, and dancing to polka music in the band shell where they lived. Once again, however, tragedy struck and Grayson passed away, leaving Maniac to fend for himself once again. He was homeless, hopeless, and decidedly against ever considering himself as part of anyone's family again.

Over that winter, Maniac found an abandoned cabin in Valley Forge to squat in. He also found two young, very unruly and extremely rude runaways. Maniac bribes them into going back home, only to find that they are the younger brothers of his old enemy, Giant John McNab. After convincing John that Maniac was not such a bad guy (after all, he did bring back his two little brothers), Maniac was invited over to the McNab residence - a disgustingly messy house full of bigoted bullies.

Over the weeks, the McNab's began to enjoy Maniac's reputation - they began to feel like celebrities for housing him. They would send him on challenges that would push him to the limit. Their biggest challenge was one Maniac had actually accomplished before - to cross over the tracks into the East End. Despite the sour taste that his last time there had caused, Maniac did the undoable. Unfortunately, an old foe from the past was nearby. Mars was waiting to for his own challenge - a race. Before they knew it, there were crowds on both sides of them watching them run. Suddenly Hester and Lester and Mrs. Beale appeared. Maniac was trapped between two worlds.

When he returned to the West End, the little McNab brothers were shocked. They had thought he was a goner from that last challenge. Maniac reached his last straw with the McNab's racism, and once again, he ran away. He stayed in the park and in people's back lawns; once again, he had no home.

Then one morning on Maniac's daily run across Two Mills, he noticed someone running too. It was Mars, but instead of picking a fight, the two ran side by side. They ran together daily. They ran in silence. Until one day they began a friendly conversation that lead Maniac back to where he belonged - back to his family, the Beale's, never to run away again.

Answer 5

Maniac Magee is the main character in the book Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli. He can run very fast, untie difficult knots, and is allergic to Pizza.

Answer 6

i don't know that's y i'm askin'

Answer 7

Maniac ends up living with Amanda Beals in her house.

Answer 8

there is a boy that wants to pick a fight

Answer 9

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