Book+Talk+Maniac+Magee

How would it feel to not have a home? Jeffery Lionel Magee didn’t have an address. Jeffery Magee’s mom and dad died in a trolley accent when he was three. He lived with his Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan until he was eight. Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan didn’t like each other. They would fight a lot. One day Jeffery, Aunt Dot, and Uncle Dan were at the school musicale, Jeffery ran on stage and yelled talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. Then he ran away, all the way to Two Mills and it took him one year to get there. Hector Street is a main street in the story. It separates the whites and the blacks. East End has blacks and West End whites. Maniac Lived at the Beale’s house. Then he was getting in trouble and every one was telling him to go home. Then he ran away again. He went to the zoo because he had known where to go. Grayson found him the Buffalo Pen. One day Grayson died. Right when Maniac taught him how to read. Will Maniac find a home or will he live at the zoo forever?

Mikey Griffey