Looking for ways to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature? Students will be engaged as they analyze this beloved Newbery Medal-winning novel by Jerry Spinelli. Maniac Magee: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides engaging activities that incorporate the following research-based literacy skills: close reading tasks; text-based vocabulary practice; cross-curricular activities; text-dependent questions; reader response writing prompts; leveled comprehension questions; story elements comprehension tasks; diverse and relevant assessments. Strengthen your students' literacy skills by implementing this high-interest resource in your classroom!

Little hyena is being excluded from all parties. He is not as cute as the other animals and his cackle makes him different. The animals think that he does not belong. But little hyena proves to them that he is very much a part of the forest to which they all belong. This book handles issues such as prejudice, exclusion and discrimination.