- Fiction, Juvenile works, Juvenile fiction, athletes
Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak 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. 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.
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Contemporary, classical in form, effortless and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Jerry Spinelli
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 184
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, American Printing House for the Blind, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 48
- Language
- Italian, German, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9781306760089
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“Maniac Magee was not born in a dump.”
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