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Maniac Magee is about a boy named Jeffrey Magee who was living a nice life until his parents get killed in a trolley accident at the age of 3. He then had to go live with his Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan. They were strict Catholics who hate each other they didn’t like to talk to each other they even had two of everything. When Jeffrey was 11years old he runs away. Until he ended up in Two Mills, Pennsylvania. So once he arrived at Two Mills it turned out it was divided into two parts.It had an East End which was where the African-Americans lived and the West End which was where all the White’s lived. Maniac first ended up in the East End, where he meets a girl named Amanda Beale. He finds her with a suitcase full of books, he convinces her to
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