Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Winner)

Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Winner)
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2014-01-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316333506

A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs. 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.

An Instructional Guide for Literature: Maniac Magee

An Instructional Guide for Literature: Maniac Magee
Author: Mary Ellen Taylor
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1493860445

Explore the many obstacles that Maniac Magee encounters in this eye-opening book. Students will learn to analyze prejudices and other challenges that Magee faces by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this digital instructional guide for literature. This e-book guide is the perfect tool for teachers to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this story. Appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. These lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more.

A Guide for Using Maniac Magee in the Classroom

A Guide for Using Maniac Magee in the Classroom
Author: Michael H. Levin
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 50
Release: 1995-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1557345376

Presents lesson plans, curriculum connections, activities, vocabulary help, a related-reading list, and other materials for teaching "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli.

Maniac Magee

Maniac Magee
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 20
Release: 1997-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590366441

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.

Literature Circle Guide

Literature Circle Guide
Author: Perdita Finn
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439163620

A guide to facilitating the discussion of the novel by Jerry Spinelli by students in grades four through eight offers suggestions for identifying themes, analyzing vocabulary, and responding to the text.

Hokey Pokey

Hokey Pokey
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375831983

Ever since they were Snotsippers, Jack and the girl have fought, until one day she steals his bike and as he and the Amigos try to recover it, Jack realizes that he is growing up and must eventually leave the "goodlands and badlands of Hokey Pokey."

Teaching with Favorite Newbery Books

Teaching with Favorite Newbery Books
Author: Lori Licciardo Musso
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590019750

Contains engaging discussion questions, vocabulary builders, writing prompts, and great literature response activities.

The Road To Ever After

The Road To Ever After
Author: Moira Young
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1760550752

When orphan boy Davy and his stray dog George are driven out of their home in the lead up to Christmas, they are forced to take shelter in a boarded-up old museum on the outskirts of town. It is here they meet Miss Flint, and where their adventure really begins. Miss Flint is dying and demands to be taken back to her family home, where a coffin with her name on it awaits. She offers Davy payment to be her 'chauffeur' and so begins their journey, stealing cars, pulling tricks and avoiding the police at every turn. But all the time, Miss Flint seems to be regaining her youth, rolling back the years one decade at a time... The Road to Ever After, is a charming, magical Christmas story from Moira Young, author of the bestselling Dustlands trilogy, and is sure to enchant everyone who reads it.