Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run--and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run--and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.
This is a story about a crazy boy called Jeffrey Magee, known as "Maniac Magee". Now he is not a normal boy, as you can see from his nickname. He had slept with buffaloes, knock on a door no one dared to, won any game without a single fight...
Magee is a small boy whose parents died. He ran away from home. He can run very fast and no can catch up with him. He didn’t think that the blacks were different from the whites. And at last, he lived with a black family.