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Maniac Magee wasn’t born in a dump. He was actually born in an ordinary house, across the river from Two Mills, in Bridgeport. He also had an ordinary mother and father. One day, however, his parents left him with a babysitter.
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Analysis. It’s hard to know what’s true and what’s myth about Maniac Magee. They say he was born in a dump, led a pet cockroach on a string, and would lose his mythical speed if he ran over salt. Finsterwald is now gone, but the band shell is still there, and so is Cobble’s Corner.
Maniac Magee was not born in a dump. He was born in a house, a pretty ordinary house, right across the river from here, in Bridgeport. And he had regular parents, a mother and a father. But not for long. One day his parents left him with a sitter and took the P & W high-speed trolley into the city.
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Aside from Maniac Magee, Amanda Beale is the most legendary character from Spinelli's book — and certainly my favorite growing up. She treats her limited supply of books as if they were made from glass, carrying them around with her in a suitcase so her younger siblings can't ruin them. When pages from her favorite books are torn, she cradled it li...
They say Maniac Magee was born in a dump, the story begins. But after spinning stories about Maniac's legacy, part one begins: In the Q&A, Spinelli says this character's origin was partly inspired by his best friend, who was found in a wicker basket as a baby outside a church. Maniac longs for an address, a home "where everybody talks to each other...
Long before Trayvon Martin, the Baltimore protests, Ferguson, and "I can't breathe," Spinelli talked about the racial divide in Two Mills, loosely based on his hometown in Norrisville. Two Mills was torn apart by racism and ignorance, and it could be most other cities across the country, but Spinelli never makes the reasons or solutions simplistic....
They say Maniac Magee was born in a dump. They say his stomach was a cereal box and his heart a sofa spring. They say he kept an eight-inch cockroach on a leash and that rats stood guard over him while he slept.
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Spinelli took a few days off before finally landing on nine words that changed everything: “They say Maniac Magee was born in a dump.” That sentence, which would become the book’s famous...
