Publication Date: 1990
Reading Level: Lexile Measure 820L, Scholastic Guided Reading Level W
Interest Level: Grades 6 - 8
Major Awards: 1991 Newbery Medal
Number of Pages: 180 pages
Approximate Word Count: 54,900 words -- The average reader will spend 3 hours and 39 minutes reading Maniac Magee at 250 words per minute.*
Audible Book Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
Book Themes: Abandonment, Family, Friendship, Courage, Race - Prejudice, Freedom and Confinement, Innocence
Genre: Young Adult Literature
Setting: Pennsylvania in 2000's
Important Quote:
Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.
First Line: Before the Story - They say Maniac Magee was born in a dump. They say his stomach was a cereal box and his heart a sofa spring. --- Ch 1 - Maniac Magee was not born in a dump. He was born in a house, a pretty ordinary house, right across the river from here, in
Bridgeport. And he had regular parents, a mother and a father.
Point of View: Third Person (Omniscient)
* Estimate from Reading Length
