Maniac+Magee

What if you were roaming around a town divided by whites from blacks, wondering where you will be next? Well, just talk to the well known Maniac Magee. He didn’t always have that name though. He started out with the mane of Jeffrey Lionel Magee which his parents who died on the P&W Trolley in Hollidaysburg game him. After he was shipped off to his Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan at age 3, he decided to run away at age 11, having enough of them wanting two of him. Through one whole year of running, he came to Two Mills. As the line dividing Hector Street stood before the blacks and the whites, no one tried to fix it, until Jeffrey came jogging in. First came the mark of pride he left at the baseball field. Then he went over to the East End where he found a black family who truly loved and cared for him. One day something awful had been painted on the house that made him move. Maniac soon found himself roaming all over town. As a great tragedy almost happened, Maniac and his enemy named Mars Bar who was black grew closer. Could this one friendship give Maniac a home, or even better; erase the gaudy line on Hector Street away? Jenna Loefer