![]() ![]() Amanda is puzzled by this suspiciously friendly white kid showing up in Two Mills’ East End (white people normally stick to the West End), but she’s a friendly girl herself, so she agrees to lend the awestruck Jeffrey one of her prized books. But the suitcase is filled with Amanda’s personal library-she’s hiding it from her messy younger siblings. Jeffrey thinks she’s a runaway because she’s carrying a suitcase. ![]() The first person he meets is a girl named Amanda Beale. Somehow-nobody is quite sure how or why-Jeffrey settles in Two Mills a year later. He snaps, starts screaming, and runs away, never to return to school. One spring, when Jeffrey is around 10, he sees Dot and Dan sitting on opposite sides of the auditorium during the school musical. However, his life with them is miserable because his aunt and uncle hate one another and won’t speak. ![]() Little Jeffrey goes to live with his Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan in another town. But he was suddenly orphaned at three years old, when his parents were killed in a trolley crash. What we know for sure is that he was born in the neighboring town of Bridgeport, to an ordinary mother and father, and that he was originally called Jeffrey, not Maniac. To this day, many stories circulate about him around the town of Two Mills, Pennsylvania. When it comes to Maniac Magee, it’s hard to separate truth from myth. ![]()
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