Maniac Magee : a novel

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Label

Maniac Magee : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Jerry Spinelli

Creator

• trueSpinelli, Jerry

Contributor

• Little, Brown and Company

Author

• trueSpinelli, Jerry

Publisher

• Little, Brown and Company

Subject

• Athletes -- Fiction
• Athletes -- Juvenile fiction
• Authors' presentation inscription (Provenance) -- 1990
• trueBoy athletes
• trueBoy orphans
• Curriculum resource
• Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 1990
• trueEleven-year-old boys
• Fiction
• Folklore -- Juvenile fiction
• Friendship
• Friendship -- Fiction
• Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
• Heroes
• Heroes -- Fiction
• Heroes -- Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Legends -- Fiction
• Legends -- Juvenile fiction
• trueNewbery Medal
• Newbery Medal
• Orphans
• Orphans -- Fiction
• Orphans -- Juvenile fiction
• Parents -- Death
• Parents -- Death -- Juvenile fiction
• Parents -- Fiction
• Prejudices
• Prejudices -- Fiction
• Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction
• Race relations
• trueRace relations
• Race relations -- Fiction
• Race relations -- Juvenile fiction
• trueRacism
• trueRunaway boys
• Runaway children
• Runaway children -- Fiction
• Runaway children -- Juvenile fiction
• Running
• trueRunning
• Running -- Fiction
• Running -- Juvenile fiction
• trueSegregation
• Sports -- Fiction
• Sports fiction
• Sports fiction
• Sports stories
• Sports stories
• trueWit and humor
• Wit and humor
• Legends
• Athletes

Genre

• Sports stories
• Juvenile works
• Juvenile fiction
• trueFolklore
• Fiction
• Dust jackets (Bindings)
• Curriculum resource
• Authors' presentation inscription (Provenance)
• Sports fiction

Language

eng

Summary

• After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries
• From the Publisher: He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. And Maniac Magee became a legend. Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how he hit an inside-the-park "frog" homer; how no knot, no matter how snarled, would stay that way once he began to untie it. But 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

Tone

• trueMoving
• trueFunny

Award

• Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction, 1990.
• Buckeye Children's Book Award (Ohio), Grades 6-8, 1993.
• Carolyn W. Field Award (Pennsylvania), 1991.
• Charlotte Award (New York), Young Adult, 1992.
• Delaware Diamonds (book award), Intermediate (Grades 3-5), 1994.
• Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (North Dakota) for Juvenile Fiction, 1992.
• Indian Paintbrush Book Award (Wyoming), 1992.
• Land of Enchantment Book Award (New Mexico), General category, 1993.
• Mark Twain Award (Missouri), 1993.
• Massachusetts Children's Book Award, 1993.
• Nene Award (Hawaii), 1996.
• Newbery Medal, 1991.
• Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (Illinois), 1993.
• Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, Grades 6-8, 1992.
• Virginia Readers' Choice Award for Middle School, 1993.
• West Virginia Children's Choice Book Award, 1993.
• William Allen White Children's Book Award (Kansas), 1993.
• Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest), Junior, 1993.
• ALA Notable Children's Book, 1991

Awards note

Newbery Medal, 1991

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

photographs

Index

no index present

Intended audience

880L

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

• Middle Grade
• MG
• 6-8
• MG

LC call number

PZ7.S75663

LC item number

Man 1990

Literary form

novels

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 6
• 10

NLM call number

Spi

PerformerNote

Read by S. Epatha Merkerson

Reading level

• 4.7
• 4.7
• 5.4
• 4.7

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Accelerated Reader AR
• Reading Counts RC
• Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning

Target audience

juvenile