Crazy Lady!

by Jane Leslie Conly

Book Overview

Increasingly alienated from his widowed father, Vernon joins his friends in ridiculing the neighborhood outcasts'Maxine, an alcoholic prone to outrageous behavior, and Ronald, her retarded son. But when a social service agency tries to put Ronald into a special home, Vernon fights against the move. 1994 Newbery Honor Book Notable Children's Books of 1994 (ALA) 1994 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) 1994 Young Adult Editors' Choices (BL) 1994 Books...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064405710
• ISBN13: 9780064405713
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

This is Definitely A Winner

Vernon is a smart kid who recently lossed him mother. He's learning to cope and to make the best out of any situation. Maxine also has a lot to learn. She acts foolish which makes the book funny by the way she talks and her outfit's has a drinking problem and it gets difficult while shes raising her mentally challenged son Ronald. One day their problems cross each other paths and an unlikely friendship forms between Maxine,Ronald,and Vernon. Through each other they learn how to face deal with life's problems. The book teaches several morals in a way that you don't realize until you finish. This is definitely a winner!

wow this was such a good book that i actually finished it!!

this book Crazy Lady was the best book i have ever read . its bout a boy struggling of a death.It was his mother.You can tell that he misses his mother because when he talks about her he says that he can fell his scalp geting hot.Its also about a alcoholic mother named maxine with a mental son named ronald.Vernon really belives in im and enters him in the special olympics.and he buys him all the supplies too.Have fun reading this book

Alyssa's Review

In the story The Crazy LadyI liked it. It helped me see that you shouldn't judge people on the outside. You have to judge on the inside most of the time. It also helped me think of all of the people that are special in other ways. I think everyone should read it and see what they think about it. When I'm older I think that I might teach special kids. It sounds like fun and it would help me with myself just as theirs. That's what I think.

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In the book Crazy Lady I have learned a lot. I learned that not all alcoholics are mean and cranky. Also that all special needs kids know right from wrong. I never knew that all special needs people are everything that normal kids are. I never knew that a special needs child can learn anything about t.v., chalk, or other kids around them. Most of the time I think all of the kids always need a person to guide them 24-7. Finally I never knew that a special needs kid can learn from a regular teacher. That is what I learned from the book of Crazy Lady.

Lindsey's review

In the story Crazy Lady I enjoyed reading it. It helped me think that not all alcoholics can be self-centered, grumpy, and mean. I also realized kids or people with special needs can be very nice even though they may not be able to talk or do anything like regular kids/adults. Kids or adults that have this disablity are just like regular people and react like regular people. It is just they have a specific problem with learning. Lastly I never thought that special needs children needed to be watched 24-7. That is what I have learned about this book and also it helped me realize people with these needs are just like regular people.