Maniac Magee

Maniac Magee is about a boy who struggled throughout his life. His name was Jeffrey Lionel Magee, sometimes known as Maniac Magee. His parents died in a trolley accident when he was three years old. He is patient, determined, and he really wants to be loved and understood. He spent eight years in bizarre household of his Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan, who hated each other but refused to divorce. They lived in the same …

…him at the zoo bandstand. At the end of a story Grayson dies and therefore Magee was left alone in the streets struggling to live. He finally meets Amanda who took him to her house. In the book Maniac Magee, a legend was born in Jeffrey Magee. He achieved something that no was has achieved before and that in uniting the town by forcing some of the blacks and the whites to know each other.