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Maniac Magee. Jerry Spinelli. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. 184 pp.

Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his friends. Moving from one place to another, he experiences that living as an orphan he could not run all the time from the tumult in his heart. He even could change a racially divided small town. For the timebeing, "Maniac Magee" realized that he longs for something called home. 

It's a story full of humanity wrapped with humor and enthusiasm. Lessons that today's teenagers should learn about life. Written by Jerry Spinelli, the Newberry Award-Winning Author, this book has tied the reader to read up to the end and continue with the author's other works.

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