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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the Maniac Magee Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The "raisins" at the McNab house are not dried grapes.  They are...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The "raisins" at the McNab house are not dried grapes.  They are roaches.
Maniac is amazed when he sees the inside of the McNab house for the first time.  Never has he come across such squalor; he can smell the living quarters before he actually sees them, and the stench is not pleasant.  In the house,  

"cans and bottles (lie) all over, along with crusts, peelings, cores, scraps, rinds, wrappers - everything you would normally find in a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:46:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[After Grayson gives Maniac some soup and a zep, Maniac asks for some...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[After Grayson gives Maniac some soup and a zep, Maniac asks for some butterscotch Krimpets.
Maniac, homeless, had been living on his own at the zoo in the bison pen.  Grayson, who works at the zoo, finds him one morning unconscious; Maniac is terribly malnourished, and is in bad shape.  Grayson picks up the boy and takes him back to the baseball-equipment room where he himself lives at the park.  Maniac looks awful;

"his clothes (are)...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:33:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[After Grayson gives Maniac the soup and the zep, what does he want to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[After Grayson gives Maniac the soup and the zep, what does he want to eat still in Maniac Magee?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:02:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what is intersting about dinner at the pickwells]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what is intersting about dinner at the pickwells]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:03:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The "problem" with all of these characters is that they are not really...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/maniac-magee/q-and-a/can-anyone-describe-maniac-few-words-how-about-117531</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The "problem" with all of these characters is that they are not really fleshed out as individuals but rather represent types. Characters portrayed in this miminalist kind of way are called "stock characters," which are very close to stereotypes.  They are instrumental in keeping the story line going or are there for simple contrast to another more developed character, but as far as their particular function or role goes, that's about it.
In...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:45:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can anyone describe Maniac from Maniac Magee in a few words? How about...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can anyone describe Maniac from Maniac Magee in a few words? How about Amanda? Or John McNab? Mars Bar?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:13:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Jeffrey's life change?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/maniac-magee/q-and-a/how-does-jeffreys-life-change-116831</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How does Jeffrey's life change?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:10:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[it was the only un step front steps beacause everyone was afraid of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[it was the only un step front steps beacause everyone was afraid of fiinster her backyard was a graveyard (full of toys and balls but no one would dare to go there) ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:41:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The phrase about which you are asking is actually found at the end of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/maniac-magee/q-and-a/what-does-this-phrase-from-chapter-38-mean-mcnabs-103017</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The phrase about which you are asking is actually found at the end of Chapter 37.
Russell and Piper McNab will only go to school if they are bribed, and thus "there (is) nothing free" about their education.  As the author says, "a tuition (has) to be paid" for Russell and Piper to go to school, and "every week, Maniac (pays) it".  In a twist on the usual meaning of the term "free public education", the tuition must be paid to Russell and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:24:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does this phrase from Chapter 38 of Maniac Magee mean: "For the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does this phrase from Chapter 38 of Maniac Magee mean: "For the McNabs, there was nothing free about public education"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:01:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Maniac Magee, are the "raisins" at the McNab house dried grapes?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Maniac Magee, are the "raisins" at the McNab house dried grapes?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:58:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Maniac is a legend because of all the amazing, crazy things he does....]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/maniac-magee/q-and-a/what-evidence-there-that-maniac-magee-has-become-80601</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Maniac is a legend because of all the amazing, crazy things he does. Kids are in awe of him because he is entertaining, talented and brave. Maniac hit the world's first frogball at the end of Chapter 7, a feat which makes him famous among all the kids. He also unties cobble's knot (in chapter 20), which no kid has ever done before. Maniac is often referred to as the "famous Maniac Magee" (such as in the beginning of chapter 35) and everyone...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:44:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jeffrey (known to us as Maniac) yearns for a family to love him. From...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/maniac-magee/q-and-a/how-does-jerry-spinelli-make-reader-understand-96185</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Jeffrey (known to us as Maniac) yearns for a family to love him. From the very beginning of the story, when Maniac flees from his aunt and uncle because they don't even talk to each other, Maniac is on a quest to find somewhere he belongs. His journey takes him to a variety of people with different racial backgrounds, economic status, and living situations. In each place he goes, he finds a different sort of family. Spinelli is masterful at...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:28:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hector Street is the invisible line that separates the East side from...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hector Street is the invisible line that separates the East side from the West side. Maniac, although he is white, has lived on both sides of Hector Street, and had good and bad experiences on both sides. Most of all, though, the worst thing he's found is that the two sides are separate. Maniac is the only one in town who ever crosses that invisible line and can exist on both sides of it. He lives without prejudice -- he sees people for who...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:16:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In answering this question, reflect on your own experiences of prejudice...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/maniac-magee/group/discuss/getting-ready-read-55249#4</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In answering this question, reflect on your own experiences of prejudice and friendship. As post #2 explains, prejudice means to judge someone or something. Think about your friends. Why are they your friends? Why do you like them? Think about their talents, their personalities, and their interests. All of these things make your friends interesting to you and fun to be around. Now, are all of your friends the same? Or do they have differences?...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:03:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Maniac Magee - Grammargator Guide]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pretty much everything about Jeffrey Lionel Magee is memorable and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Pretty much everything about Jeffrey Lionel Magee is memorable and unusual.  First of all, there is the way he frees himself from ridiculous and uncomfortable living arrangements with his disfunctional Aunt and Uncle.  During a spring musicale at his school, Jeffrey just starts screaming during a song he and his class are performing onstage.  When the song is over, he continues to scream, then leaps off the stage and runs out the auditorium...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 1 Sep 2009 09:19:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why is Jeffrey memorable and unusual in Maniac Magee?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why is Jeffrey memorable and unusual in Maniac Magee?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:57:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is what Mars Bar wants to know at the end of the story. Maniac's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is what Mars Bar wants to know at the end of the story. Maniac's fearlessness has reached mythic proportion, so it's quite a mystery why he didn't rescue Russell from the train trestle. As Mars Bar says, "Listen, man, I know you wasn't scared. I know it."
Remember how the story begins, with the death of Maniac's parents in a tragic trolley car accident. The accident occurred on the very same trestle Russell has wandered out on, and in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:55:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Well, Spinelli never comes right out and says why, does he? But isn't...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Well, Spinelli never comes right out and says why, does he? But isn't there some house in every neighborhood where the "tough" kid lives--where, as Spinelli writes, '''If you valued your life, you never chased a ball into" that yard? And "No kid on a snow day would ever shovel that sidewalk, not for a zillion dollars"?
The author's description of what would happen to anyone who dared venture near Fensterwald's, and the myth that surrounded the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:27:33 PST</pubDate>
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