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27th Feb '13 1:54:23 PM Xtifr

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->''Maniac, Maniac, he's so cool!''
->''Maniac, Maniac, don't go to school!''
->''Runs all night, runs all right!''
->''Maniac, Maniac, kissed a bull!''
-->-Jump-rope rhyme

''Maniac Magee'' is a young adult book written by Jerry Spinelli. This book deals with a strange boy named Maniac Magee who starts off with a very crappy childhood. He runs away and tries to find a home, while making a legend of himself in the process. He then meets [[{{Meganekko}} Amanda Beale]], a [[SassyBlackWoman young, sassy]] girl. She lends him a book and she finds him worming his way into the hearts of her family and herself, while dealing with racial problems in the urban streets.

A flim adaption aired in Nicklodeon in 2003, although it was [[LighterAndSofter lighter]] in comparsion with the book.
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!!These are the following tropes:
* AlliterativeFamily: All ten of the Pickwell children have names that start with the letter D.
* {{Badass}}: Maniac.
* BadassBookworm: Maniac, again, as well as Amanda Beale.
* [[BrattyHalfPint Bratty Half Pints]]: Piper and Russell.
** Hester and Lester, to an extent.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Amanda and Mars Bar appear to have shades of this, especially apparent towards the end of the book.
* BigBrotherMentor: Hester and Lester see Maniac this way. He tries to be one to Piper and Russell, as well.
* CoolOldGuy: Grayson.
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler: Earl Grayson.]]
* DeathGlare: Mars Bar can cause a ''traffic jam'' just by doing this, according to legend.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Amanda gives one to Mars Bar at the end of the novel. "How ''bad'' can you be if everyone's calling you ''Snickers?''"
* [[FantasticRacism Urban Racism]]: The West Enders and the East Enders have this attitude towards each other.
* FirstNameBasis: Amanda, and by extension her whole family, will only address Maniac by his given name. Jeffrey.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Jada Pinkett Smith is the narrator of the film adaption of Maniac Magee. 
** Rip Torn is George Mcnab.
** Orlando Brown AKA Cornelius Filmore is Mars Bar.
* HeroicBSOD: Maniac suffers a huge one after [[spoiler:Grayson passes away]]. 
* JerkAss: John Mcnab, George Mcnab, Mars Bar for most of the book.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mars Bar becomes this after saving Russell from being run over.
* LastNameBasis: Earl Grayson, and John Mcnab for the most part. The latter averts this in scenes where his father is also present.
* LonersAreFreaks: Averted. Maniac just wants to be accepted by everyone.
* MemeticMutation: In-universe, Maniac's exploits become the subject of a jump-rope chant.
* TheMessiah: Maniac.
* {{Meganekko}}: Amanda.
* NaiveNewcomer: Maniac, at first.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Grayson. Maniac decides to teach him, much to his embarrassment.
* NoAccountingForTaste: Maniac's aunt and uncle have a deep mutual hatred for each other, yet stay together because divorce is against their religion. It's their horrible relationship that finally make Maniac just snap and run as far away as he can from them.
* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Mars Bar.
* ParentalAbandonment: Maniac's parents died in a train crash.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Amanda tends to talk this way when annoyed.
** [[PunctuatedPounding Punctuated Kicking]]: And she'll go right into this if you ''really'' manage to tick her off.
* [[SassyBlackWoman Sassy Black Girl]]: Amanda.
* [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Boy]]: Mars Bar. [[spoiler: He eventually warms up a little bit.]]
* TheRival: Mars Bar to Maniac.
* TheRunaway: Maniac.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Maniac will do anything for a pack of Tastykake Butterscotch Krimpets.
* TruthInTelevision: A street that divides a community neatly in half? [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17361995 St. Louis has it]]. It's not clear if Spinelli was referring to it specifically.
* {{Tsundere}}: Amanda behaves this way towards Maniac and Mars Bar.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Five days later the old man was dead."]]

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15th Dec '12 1:36:17 PM LadyYuki

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15th Dec '12 8:42:37 AM LadyYuki

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