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Maniac Magee

Maniac Magee. Jerry Spinelli. Jerry Spinelli (born February 1, 1941) is an American author of children's novels on adolescence and early adulthood. He is best known for the novels Maniac Magee and Wringer.

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Maniac Magee

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  1. Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli

  2. Jerry Spinelli (born February 1, 1941) is an American author of children's novels on adolescence and early adulthood. He is best known for the novels Maniac Magee and Wringer. Spinelli was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania and currently resides in Phoenixville, PA. At the age of sixteen, his love of sports inspired him to compose a poem about a recent football victory. Later, unbeknownst to him, his father published it in the local newspaper. It was at this time he realized that he would not become a major league football player, and decided to become a writer instead. Jerry Spinelli

  3. Maniac Magee is one part tall tale, two parts lessons about life. It has many themes that will teach us important lessons to remember years after we’ve closed the book. A Tale of a Hero

  4. Friendship • Racism • Home • Family • Being a Hero Themes

  5. Maniac lives in a town divided by race and prejudice. Town of Two Mills

  6. Maniac is a true “tall tale” hero as we will see. He starts from nothing – poor, homeless – and becomes a legend that everyone can look up to. At some point, he even lives with wild buffalo! Hero’s Tale

  7. Night of the Whale Dump Days Maniac Magee The Bathwater Gang HallieJefferys Life Fourth Grade Rats Report to the Principal’s Office There's a Girl in My Hammerlock Do the Funky Pickle Who Ran My Underwear Up the Flagpole? Picklemania Tooter Pepperday Crash (Spinelli novel) The Library Card Wringer Blue Ribbon Blues: A Tooter Tale Knots in My Yo-Yo String Stargirl Loser Love, Stargirl Milkweed: A Novel My Daddy and Me Eggs Smiles to Go I Can Be Anything! "Jake and Lilly" "Hokey Pokey" Other books by Jerry Spinelli

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