Maniac Magee is a scraggly, footloose 12-year-old orphan who lopes through the streets of a small town in Pennsylvania, a kid-size mixture of Paul Bunyan and ) the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli, $7, Amazon. Instead, we can look at Maniac's story through the lens of children's eyes (if you can remember what that's like.) Aren't we all the larger-than-life ...

Maniac Magee was totally crushworthy to a preteen girl — speaking for myself of course. For me, he was inching up behind Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, and for a lot of the same reasons.

This month, Little, Brown is releasing a 25th-anniversary edition of 'Maniac Magee,' the Newbery Medal-winning bestseller by Jerry Spinelli.

Product Design and Development`s loss is children`s literature`s gain.On Monday, Spinelli, a 49-year-old father of six, won the 1991 John Newbery Medal for his novel ”Maniac Magee,” the ...

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.

Maniac Magee ... was an orphan and I have a couple of other stories along similar lines. I suppose I just find it dramatically inviting. ...

NORRISTOWN – Maniac Magee Day will be held at Elmwood Park on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. as part of the Norristown Bicentennial celebration. Norristown native and Newberry-winning author ...