6/23/2023 0 Comments Maniac magee online book to readHe runs away after 8 years with his angry aunt and uncle, and ends up in Two Mills, Pennsylvania. Those powers seem to serve Maniac (real name Jeffrey Lionel Magee) well after his parents die in a tragic accident when he’s 3 years old. We could have talked about the magic realism that works well in the novel: Maniac’s powers to run, to hit homeruns, and to untie huge tangled knots. Reading it for the first time in 2014, I wished I had read it when my children were in elementary and middle school. That’s pretty high praise, suggesting the book’s endurance and strength over 20 years. The National Education Association named Maniac one of its “Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children” in 2007, the School Library Journal placed it among the “Top 100 Chapter Books” in 2012. Maniac Magee was first published in 1990, and received the prestigious Newbery Medal in 1991.
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