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I really didn't enjoy this book. I feel like the story didn't really go anywhere. Spinelli tried to touch on issues of racial prejudice and poverty, and let the exsistance of those issues carry his story. It didn't work. However because there are touchy issues, it becomes a story that isn't easy to

This book is one of my favorite books to use when I work with students. It approaches the concept of “race” and “racism” through the eyes of someone that just wants to make friends and doesn't understand why people would treat others differently just because of their looks. It also treats the main c Leggi tutto

I HATED IT. Plot: A little boy named Maniac's parents had a tragic death. He lives with his stupid aunt and uncle who should get a divorce. During a march of the animals or whatever school play, he shouts like Harry in the fifth and runs into the onion smelling night. He lives with animals and eats a Leggi tutto

Welp, I had heard about this book for so long that I wanted to like it more, but I found myself caught up in 'wait this was written in 1990?' confusion. It just doesn't ring true on issues of race and class in the US, a white guy is trying to write about black issues, for a white audience that becom Leggi tutto

Re-read in prep for teaching it to my younger group of kids this year. The structure of the book lends itself very well to teaching it in chunks and to illustrate its points clearly, which isn't why it's a classic of early middle school, I assume. Extra star for that- looking forward to discussions

I love this book because is telling me the time when black people and white people were seperted. This book is realistic fiction because there and made up characters but,this happend real that black people and white people were seperted. Maniac parents died from a trolly crash.Maniac didn't have any were Leggi tutto