Maniac Magee

This is my chosen novel and I'd like to introduce something about it.

Maniac Magee is a novel written by Jerry Spinelli and was published in 1990. It won the 1991 Newbery Medal . Jerry Spinelli is the author of dozens of other children's books.

Maniac Magee writes author's story to entertain young readers as well as helping them to understand many important life lessons.

It's about prejudice, love, home, baseball, fear and understanding. It's about Jeffrey Lionel Magee, sometimes known as Maniac Magee, and about the people of the town of Two Mills.

Jeffrey's parents were killed in a trolley accident when he was 3 and he became an orphan and homeless. He had been living with his aunt and her husband for 8 years, but it was an unhappy time for him cuz his Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan hated each other. He ran away when he was 12.

After one year of running, Jeffrey arrived in Two Mills, two hundred miles away from his aunt and uncle ( he can run too fast and years later, he becomes a football and baseball superstar). Two Mills is a town divided by race into East and West End. There Jeffrey becomes "Maniac Magee", the subject of legends that have lasted ever since. In his search for a place to belong, he eventually succeeds to some degree in combining the town by forcing at least some of the Blacks and Whites to know each other.

This is such a meaningful novel that I really enjoy reading it :X

to Vi : thank you so much for lending me this book! luv u, hehe