It seems fitting to look back after 25 years at a children's novel that is so much about memory. This week, on the 25th anniversary of Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee, it's almost unreal how much the ...

Jerry Spinelli spun the tall tale of one legendary boy and his confrontation with a racial divide in a fictional Pennsylvania town in Maniac Magee. Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee was orphaned when his ...

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 ...

NORRISTOWN>> The Salvation Army of Norristown Family Shelter, an award-winning children’s book by Norristown native Jerry Spinelli and an annual fundraising run in Havertown have been kindred spirits ...

Jeffrey "Maniac" Magee was orphaned as a baby, but nothing gets him down. He comes to a small town which, although divided by racism, is populated by colorful/comical characters. As he searches for ...

Maniac Magee is prose on a pogo stick, bounding breathlessly from one outrageously exaggerated comic contretemps to another. The characters are engaging and the dialogue zings with slangy bravado. But ...