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Maniac loved the colors of the East End, the people colors.

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How could he act as a father to these boys when he himself ached to be somebody's son?

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"one of them jumped down from a front step and planted himself right in front of maniac."

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"one of them jumped down from a front step and planted himself right in front of maniac."

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Noah

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"Grayson, they're just regular people like us."

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"Grayson, they're just regular people like us."

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Matthew

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Maniac Magee finally had an address

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"Wait-" called Maniac. "What did you want to be when you were a kid?"

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He could see a flying football or a John McNab fastball better than anybody.

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He could see a flying football or a John McNab fastball better than anybody.

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jacob

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"Where you runnin', boy?"

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"Yo, kid!" But he was running . . . running . . .

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"Yo, kid!" But he was running . . . running . . .

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Austin Urias

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"More than anything, Maniac wanted to hug Amanda and tell her it was okay. He wanted to go inside, be with his family, in his house, his room, behind his window. But that wasn't the right thing."

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"where are you from? West End?"

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Any chance of those Krimpets now?

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"John Mcnab had never in his life met a kid he couldn't strike out

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"I'll just take off running."

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"I know you wasn't scared."

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"If the Wonders of the world hadn't stopped at seven, Cobble's Knot would have been number eight."

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"Her lip started to quiver before his, but before she could say "I'm sorry," he was hugging and squeezing her and burying his face in her chest and sobbing, "I love you...I love you..."

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"Her lip started to quiver before his, but before she could say "I'm sorry," he was hugging and squeezing her and burying his face in her chest and sobbing, "I love you...I love you..."

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~Dreena

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To anyone else, it was a ratty old scrap of leather, barely recognizable as a baseball glove, fit for a garbage can. But Maniac knew at once this was Grayson's, the one he had played with all those years in the Minors.

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"Kid's gotta be a maniac"

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"Cobble's Knot was dead. Undone. Gone. It was nothing but a string."

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"Yeah, you're bad all right, Mars Bar. You're more than bad. You're good."

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He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home.

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Maniac whooped, "You're reading!" "I'm reading!" yipped the old man.

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Maniac whooped, "You're reading!" "I'm reading!" yipped the old man.

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Avani

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He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home.

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He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home.

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Austin Urias

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"they were on board when the P and w had its famous crash"

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The Ghostly soldiers returned, their haunted eyes seeking warmth, food, life.

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The Ghostly soldiers returned, their haunted eyes seeking warmth, food, life.

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Jacob

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'This information seemed to shock the old man. Maniac layed down laid down his fork. "Grayson they're just regular people, like us." '

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'This information seemed to shock the old man. Maniac layed down laid down his fork. "Grayson they're just regular people, like us." '

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~Dreena

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"are you running away?"

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"and why no kid would ever shovel that sidewalk, not for a zillion dollars".

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where are you from? west end?

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"how about school?"
"what about school?"

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' "Let's go." "Where?" "Home." "Whose?" "Mine. Yours. Ours..." '

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' "Let's go." "Where?" "Home." "Whose?" "Mine. Yours. Ours..." '

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~Dreena

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nina

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As the first person to actually stop and talk with maniac, that would be amanda beale. And it happened because of a mistake
Michael

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as the first person to stop and talk with maniac

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To anyone else, it was a ratty old scrap of leather, fit for the garbage can. But Maniac knew at once this was Grayson's, the one he had played with all those years in the Minors.

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"I don't think I'm bad. I'm not saying I'm  an angel, either"

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"I don't think I'm bad. I'm not saying I'm  an angel, either"

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Giancarlo Martinez

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"I want them all" he threw his hand out "Im learning"
Michael

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He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home

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maniac fame spread all over the east end the new white kid

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It was a month of frozen hardness ,of ice.

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he didn't run to the superintendent's office. he didn't run to the nearest house. he knew

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"Inside his house, a kid gets one name, but on the other side of the door, it's whatever the rest of the world wants to call him."

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Eli                                                 "I heard about it," said another, "but I didn't believe it."

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Eli                                                 "I heard about it," said another, "but I didn't believe it."

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She keep running, then stopped, turned, glared. What kind of kid was this anyway?

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"Grayson, they're just regular people, like us."

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"Grayson, they're just regular people, like us."

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Giancarlo

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He began talking to the old man, about places he had been on the road, about places the two of them might have gone to, about everything.

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For the life of him, he couldn't figure out why these East Enders called themselves black.

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if the wonders of the world hadn't stopped at seven, cobbles knot would have been at 8.

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"Amanda was happy to give up her room to maniac"

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"McNab fired. The kid swung. The batters in line automatically turned their eyes to the backstop, where the ball should be - but it wasn't there."

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He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home

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He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home

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Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.

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"No more holding back."

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"Grayson, they're just regular people, like us. "

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he ran far that day away from the town letting the wind wash him

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"for the rest of November, winter toyed with two mills"

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Inside his house a kid gets one name but on the otherside of the door it whatever the world wants to call him

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He knew that finally, truly ,at long last, someone was calling him home

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He would rise with the sun's color, before the sun itself, before the bison
Michael

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"Don't go makin' no big thing, man. Ain't no big thing."

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Never again to return to the house of two toasters. Never again to return to school.

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Do I know that kid?

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"Grayson they're just regular people, like us."

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His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway

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"During the days, he ran, usually a slow job. But sometimes he would suddenly sprint, furious ten- or twenty second bursts, as trying to leave himself behind."

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"What the kid said actually made him feel good, though he had no idea why."

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His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway.

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There is no more holding back

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"With a ball in his hand, the park handyman became a professor."

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Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have 

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Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have 

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: "Kids gotta be Maniac ."

domy

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what's true. what's myth it's hard to know

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mikayla

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finally someone was calling him home

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Maniac loved the colors of the East End, the people colors.

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He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home.

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"You crazy, Hands," a high-schooler laughed. "He's just a runt. His peach fuzz ain't even come in yet."

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he knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home

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Dead silence along the street. The kid had done the unthinkable, he had chomped on one of Mar's own bar.

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teach me how to read

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"And that's how Jeffery Magee knocked the world's first frogball for a four-bagger."

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He know that finally,truly at long last, someone was calling him home.

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"He'd never - nobody'd ever - tried to hit a fasfrog before."

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"I don't know, maybe you ought do something for me first." "Like what?" "Like tell me your name." "It's Jeffrey Magee"

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Five days later the old man was dead.

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the boy could not keep his eyes off the glove and the old man could not keep his eyes off,the boy five days later the old man was dead

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" They're are just regular people, like us."

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And that's how they found out that Maniac Magee was allergic to pizza.

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5 days later the old man was dead

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Yeah, you're bad alright, Mars Bar. You're more than bad. You're good."

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"I'm reading!" yipped the old man. His smile was so wide he'd have to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway.

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The blue Star treats every new rookie to his first in town free."

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There is no more holding back

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But amanda Beale was also friendly. So she stopped and said "Hi" back.

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5 days later the old man was dead

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Maniac started to live with the beale's

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"He wondered if he would have better luck sleeping in the emu pen."

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At home a kid gets one name but walking out the door it was whatever the world wanted to call him.