This book is yet another example of the fanatical rantings of close minded neo-enviro-libertaria-cons. Maniac Mcgee represents the United States constant 'struggle' to overcome 'facism' in the 'UN'.PleaseNone of the useless rantings of this book deserve any real attention.

The novel Maniac Magee is an excellent book. The first reason why I like this book is because of how Maniac did all kinds of crazy things to get Russell and Piper to go to school. The reason I like this part is because the crazy things he does no one else would ever try or do like going into Finsterwalds backyard and ring his doorbell. My second reason why I like this book is because Maniac taught John Mcnab the "stopball". The reason why I like this part is because Maniac shows him so his brothers would not make fun of him and Maniac pretended to strike out. My third reason why I like this book is because when Maniac taught Grayson to read. The reason why I like this is because he wanted to learn to read. The book was enjoyable to read I liked it a lot it was very suspensful and also entertaining to read I reccomend this book to everyone.

The book Maniac Magee was very different from any other book that I have read. It wasn't that great. In some parts it got confusing. In the iginning Maniac was running all over the place for days straight. He must be some kind of superhuman and that is weird. I also think that the story was confusing at the end. First Mars asked Maniac if he wanted to stay with him and then Amanda asked Maniac the same thing. I still think that Maniac should have gone and stayed at Mars Bar's house. One other thing that I didn't like about this book was how Maniac was living with about four families. Those are the reasons why I disliked the book Maniac Magee.

This was the first book by this author that I have read. I didn't think it was great. The events kept repeating and some parts didn't make sense.I DID like the way Jerry Spinelli was descriptive and wrote with beautiful language.

Maniac Magee was a good book but out of the 160 pages or so about 20-25 was deatails. I think he did use creative words though. If he didn't spend so much time describing everything then I think a lot more people would have liked the book. Though a few parts of the book that I read I thought were cool but he has too much deatail. He could have made the plot better and the story longer and kept the same amount of detail and I would have loved the story. Though I would highly suggest the story to little kids, people who love detailed stories, or parents. If I had some more time to read this book then i might have liked it better (one sign this a book the schools read which makes it a good book). Well thats my opinion and some others may agree with it and some may not.-Bastion T. DarkBlade

I personally hated Maniac Magee.I am a person who likes suspense and will only read stuff like that. If it wasn't for the school requirements I would never had read it.First, it's pretty slow starting. Also the actions that happen in the book are really boring or stupid.Some parts of the book were so boring I had to read them more than 3 times.Also the setting I really did not care for.It's about a poor orphaned boy who runs away and ends up in a town called Two Mills that is seperated into two sections-- one for blacks and the other for whites.After he is there for a while, strange things start to happen.It depends what kinds of books you like to read also. If you like fantasy or realistic fiction you would love the book! I love suspense so I really hated it. But I have to admit Jerry Spinelli likes to play with words!