https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc Copy a sentence or phrase from the novel that you found particularly "moving" or important. Copy the words exactly as Jerry Spinelli wrote them. en-us 2018-03-22 12:50:52 UTC 2022-06-14 15:41:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338603561 Noah]]> 2021-03-22 15:40:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338603561 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338606833 Matthew

]]> 2021-03-22 15:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338606833 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338608436 "Cobble's Knot was dead. Undone. Gone. It was nothing but a string." ]]> 2021-03-22 15:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338608436 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338609603 Maniac Magee finally had an address]]> 2021-03-22 15:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338609603 mdemaria2 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338610128 "Wait-" called Maniac. "What did you want to be when you were a kid?"]]> 2021-03-22 15:41:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338610128 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338610850 jacob]]> 2021-03-22 15:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338610850 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338611014 How could he act as a father to these boys when he himself ached to be somebody's son?]]> 2021-03-22 15:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338611014 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338612549 "Where you runnin', boy?"]]> 2021-03-22 15:41:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338612549 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338614146 Avani]]> 2021-03-22 15:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338614146 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338615061 "where are you from? West End?"]]> 2021-03-22 15:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338615061 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338615143 Maniac loved the colors of the East End, the people colors.]]> 2021-03-22 15:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338615143 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338616043 "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."]]> 2021-03-22 15:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338616043 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338622296 Austin Urias]]> 2021-03-22 15:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338622296 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338623148 "John Mcnab had never in his life met a kid he couldn't strike out ]]> 2021-03-22 15:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338623148 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338623965 "I'll just take off running."]]> 2021-03-22 15:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338623965 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338624641 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. ]]> 2021-03-22 15:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338624641 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338624964 "If the Wonders of the world hadn't stopped at seven, Cobble's Knot would have been number eight."]]> 2021-03-22 15:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338624964 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338625515 "Kid's gotta be a maniac"

]]> 2021-03-22 15:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338625515 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338626522 Any chance of those Krimpets now?]]> 2021-03-22 15:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338626522 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338626582 ~Dreena]]> 2021-03-22 15:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338626582 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338627024 2021-03-22 15:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338627024 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338628472 "I know you wasn't scared."]]> 2021-03-22 15:44:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338628472 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338629623 "Yeah, you're bad all right, Mars Bar. You're more than bad. You're good."]]> 2021-03-22 15:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338629623 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338631209 Austin Urias]]> 2021-03-22 15:44:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338631209 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338632788 He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home.]]> 2021-03-22 15:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338632788 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338632978 "they were on board when the P and w had its famous crash"]]> 2021-03-22 15:45:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338632978 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338636998 Jacob]]> 2021-03-22 15:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338636998 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338649439 "are you running away?"

]]> 2021-03-22 15:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338649439 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338650505 2021-03-22 15:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338650505 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338660145 "and why no kid would ever shovel that sidewalk, not for a zillion dollars".

]]> 2021-03-22 15:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338660145 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338665132 ~Dreena]]> 2021-03-22 15:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338665132 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338672600 where are you from? west end?]]> 2021-03-22 15:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338672600 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338677071 "how about school?" 
"what about school?"]]> 2021-03-22 15:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338677071 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338709576 ~Dreena]]> 2021-03-22 15:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338709576 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338734110 nina]]> 2021-03-22 16:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1338734110 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339076719 As the first person to actually stop and talk with maniac, that would be amanda beale. And it happened because of a mistake
Michael]]> 2021-03-22 17:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339076719 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339084207 as the first person to stop and talk with maniac ]]> 2021-03-22 17:01:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339084207 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339086018 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.]]> 2021-03-22 17:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339086018 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339089929 Giancarlo Martinez]]> 2021-03-22 17:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339089929 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339098916 He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home]]> 2021-03-22 17:04:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339098916 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339099001 "I want them all" he threw his hand out "Im learning"
Michael]]> 2021-03-22 17:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339099001 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339099321 maniac fame spread all over the east end the new white kid

]]> 2021-03-22 17:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339099321 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339102436 It was a month of frozen hardness ,of ice.]]> 2021-03-22 17:04:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339102436 mmanson5 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339102615 he didn't run to the superintendent's office. he didn't run to the nearest house. he knew]]> 2021-03-22 17:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339102615 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339104001 "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."]]> 2021-03-22 17:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339104001 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339109185 2021-03-22 17:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339109185 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339110408 She keep running, then stopped, turned, glared. What kind of kid was this anyway?]]> 2021-03-22 17:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339110408 mdemaria2 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339110915 For the life of him, he couldn't figure out why these East Enders called themselves black.]]> 2021-03-22 17:06:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339110915 klara7 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339111265 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.]]> 2021-03-22 17:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339111265 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339112987 if the wonders of the world hadn't stopped at seven, cobbles knot would have been at 8.]]> 2021-03-22 17:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339112987 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339113829 "Amanda was happy to give up her room to maniac"]]> 2021-03-22 17:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339113829 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339113833 2021-03-22 17:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339113833 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339114288 "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."]]> 2021-03-22 17:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339114288 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339116749 "No more holding back."]]> 2021-03-22 17:07:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339116749 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339117832 Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac. ]]> 2021-03-22 17:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339117832 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339119710 "Grayson, they're just regular people, like us. "]]> 2021-03-22 17:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339119710 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339119852 he ran far that day away from the town letting the wind wash him ]]> 2021-03-22 17:07:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339119852 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339124032 Giancarlo]]> 2021-03-22 17:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339124032 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339127449 "for the rest of November, winter toyed with two mills" ]]> 2021-03-22 17:08:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339127449 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339128890 Inside his house a kid gets one name but on the otherside of the door it whatever the world wants to call him]]> 2021-03-22 17:09:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339128890 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339129986 He would rise with the sun's color, before the sun itself, before the bison
Michael

]]> 2021-03-22 17:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339129986 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339130580 He knew that finally, truly ,at long last, someone was calling him home ]]> 2021-03-22 17:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339130580 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339137946 "Don't go makin' no big thing, man. Ain't no big thing."]]> 2021-03-22 17:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339137946 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339138990 Never again to return to the house of two toasters. Never again to return to school.]]> 2021-03-22 17:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339138990 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339141206 Do I know that kid?]]> 2021-03-22 17:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339141206 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339147025 "Grayson they're just regular people, like us."]]> 2021-03-22 17:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339147025 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339149207 "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."]]> 2021-03-22 17:12:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339149207 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339150068 "What the kid said actually made him feel good, though he had no idea why."]]> 2021-03-22 17:12:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339150068 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339168332 His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway.]]> 2021-03-22 17:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339168332 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339176003 There is no more holding back]]> 2021-03-22 17:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339176003 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339177680 "With a ball in his hand, the park handyman became a professor."]]> 2021-03-22 17:17:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339177680 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339211761 : "Kids gotta be Maniac ."

domy]]> 2021-03-22 17:23:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339211761 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339219997 His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway]]> 2021-03-22 17:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1339219997 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1341182726 what's true. what's myth it's hard to know ]]> 2021-03-23 04:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1341182726 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1346105675 mikayla]]> 2021-03-24 03:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1346105675 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1346113669 finally someone was calling him home]]> 2021-03-24 03:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/1346113669 mdemaria2 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212360657 Maniac loved the colors of the East End, the people colors.]]> 2022-06-06 15:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212360657 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212363097 He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home.]]> 2022-06-06 15:38:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212363097 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212363304 "You crazy, Hands," a high-schooler laughed. "He's just a runt. His peach fuzz ain't even come in yet."]]> 2022-06-06 15:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212363304 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212363371 he knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home

]]> 2022-06-06 15:38:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212363371 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212363456 Dead silence along the street. The kid had done the unthinkable, he had chomped on one of Mar's own bar.]]> 2022-06-06 15:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212363456 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212364440 teach me how to read]]> 2022-06-06 15:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212364440 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212365444 "And that's how Jeffery Magee knocked the world's first frogball for a four-bagger."]]> 2022-06-06 15:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212365444 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212365763 He know that finally,truly at long last, someone was calling him home.]]> 2022-06-06 15:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212365763 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212366179 "He'd never - nobody'd ever - tried to hit a fasfrog before."]]> 2022-06-06 15:40:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212366179 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212367093 "I don't know, maybe you ought do something for me first." "Like what?" "Like tell me your name." "It's Jeffrey Magee"]]> 2022-06-06 15:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212367093 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212367501 Five days later the old man was dead.]]> 2022-06-06 15:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212367501 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212367730 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]]> 2022-06-06 15:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212367730 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212367807 " They're are just regular people, like us."]]> 2022-06-06 15:42:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212367807 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212368583 And that's how they found out that Maniac Magee was allergic to pizza.]]> 2022-06-06 15:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212368583 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212368627 5 days later the old man was dead]]> 2022-06-06 15:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212368627 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212369092 Yeah, you're bad alright, Mars Bar. You're more than bad. You're good."]]> 2022-06-06 15:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212369092 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212369408 "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.]]> 2022-06-06 15:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212369408 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212369500 The blue Star treats every new rookie to his first in town free."]]> 2022-06-06 15:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212369500 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212369572 There is no more holding back]]> 2022-06-06 15:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212369572 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212369880 But amanda Beale was also friendly. So she stopped and said "Hi" back.]]> 2022-06-06 15:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212369880 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212370149 5 days later the old man was dead]]> 2022-06-06 15:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212370149 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212370580 Maniac started to live with the beale's]]> 2022-06-06 15:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212370580 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212371313 "He wondered if he would have better luck sleeping in the emu pen."]]> 2022-06-06 15:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212371313 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212371354 "Grayson they're just regular people, like us.''

]]> 2022-06-06 15:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212371354 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212371984 "no more holding back"]]> 2022-06-06 15:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212371984 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212371988 At home a kid gets one name but walking out the door it was whatever the world wanted to call him.]]> 2022-06-06 15:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212371988 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212372027 He knew that finally,truly,at long last, someone was calling him home]]> 2022-06-06 15:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212372027 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212376379 "And that was it. Nobody (Except Amanda Beale) had any other name for him, so pretty soon, when they wanted to talk about the new kid, that's what they called him:Maniac. 
The legend had a name.

  ]]> 2022-06-06 15:49:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212376379 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212379384 Five days later The old man was dead]]> 2022-06-06 15:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212379384 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212380116 You smell like a buffalo]]> 2022-06-06 15:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212380116 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212382779 Five days later the old man was dead]]> 2022-06-06 15:55:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212382779 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212382962 someone was finally calling him home]]> 2022-06-06 15:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212382962 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212385077 "A week passed. A second week. Morning after morning. Stride for stride, breath for breath. Never a word, never a glance. Each believing the other simply happened to be going where he was going."]]> 2022-06-06 15:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212385077 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212560440 She was right, of course. 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.]]> 2022-06-06 18:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212560440 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212615768 Daniel C]]> 2022-06-06 19:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212615768 mdemaria2 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212645797 When somebody does something you really like. "A-men"]]> 2022-06-06 20:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212645797 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212649239 Out-numbered, out-weighed, but not out-hearted. ]]> 2022-06-06 20:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212649239 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212649761 "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."]]> 2022-06-06 20:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212649761 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212649824 Daniel S

]]> 2022-06-06 20:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212649824 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212649903 "It wasn't a ball at all, it was a frog.']]> 2022-06-06 20:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212649903 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212650447 "Maniac was the only mourner."]]> 2022-06-06 20:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212650447 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212650521 "Maniac loved almost everything about his new life. But everything didn't love him back."]]> 2022-06-06 20:25:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212650521 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212650595 " The victims were hunched and trembling, walking the gangplank. "Thirty-four!.... Thirty-five!...."]]> 2022-06-06 20:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212650595 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212651045 2022-06-06 20:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212651045 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212651050 Before he left for good, he got some paint and angrily brushed over the 101 on the door.]]> 2022-06-06 20:25:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212651050 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212651381 Knowing it would not be fast or easy, and wanting, deserving nothing less, grimly, patiently, he waited for death.]]> 2022-06-06 20:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212651381 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212651458 "..Until his curveball could no longer bend around so much as a chilli pepper and his fastball was slower than a senorita's answer."]]> 2022-06-06 20:26:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212651458 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212651971 Maniac Magee finally had an adress.]]> 2022-06-06 20:27:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212651971 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212651976 "He took the old man's hand. It was cold."]]> 2022-06-06 20:27:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212651976 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212652198 Maniac gave his answer: "I am home."]]> 2022-06-06 20:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212652198 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212652202 Jeffery gasped. "Books!"]]> 2022-06-06 20:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212652202 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212652529 "A Cobra had jumped from the hole, a fat, red-haired Cobra, who was now rolling on the floor and laughing so hard, as were all the Cobras, that his face matched the color of his hair."]]> 2022-06-06 20:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212652529 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212652623 He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home.]]> 2022-06-06 20:28:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212652623 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212652684 "That's when Maniac felt it - pride, for this East End warrior whom Maniac could feel trembling in his arms, scared as any normal kid would be, but not showing it to them."]]> 2022-06-06 20:28:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212652684 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212653328 "He turned his eyes to the sky, beyond the flickering fireflies to the stars. If there were answers, they were as far away as the constellations."]]> 2022-06-06 20:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212653328 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212654398 HE TOOK THE OLD MANS HAND, IT WAS COLD]]> 2022-06-06 20:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212654398 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212654466 "He took the man's hand.it was cold."

]]> 2022-06-06 20:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212654466 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212655093 hauled Graysons belongings around the minor leagues before he left for good he got some paint angirly brushed over the 101 on the door.]]> 2022-06-06 20:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212655093 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212655749 Yeah, you're bad alright, Mars Bar. You're more than bad. You're good."

]]> 2022-06-06 20:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212655749 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212655863 2022-06-06 20:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212655863 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212658413 2022-06-06 20:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212658413 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212659614 2022-06-06 20:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212659614 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212659947 Maniac thought of Thanksgiving past, of sitting around a joyless table, his aunt and uncle as silent and as lifeless as the mammoth bird they gnawed on.]]> 2022-06-06 20:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212659947 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212661255 2022-06-06 20:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212661255 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212661352 He dragged his chest protectors alongside the old man's mat and lay down, and only then, when he closed his eyes, did he cry.]]> 2022-06-06 20:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212661352 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212661559 "This is not your home! Now leave!"]]> 2022-06-06 20:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212661559 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212664181 Maniac said nothing, he was quite content to let Amanda to the talking, for he knew that behind her grumbling was all that he had ever wanted. He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home.]]> 2022-06-06 20:45:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212664181 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212664490 Then he closed the door, said a cheerful "Good night," and went to bed. Maniac Magee finally had an address]]> 2022-06-06 20:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212664490 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212666338 The record player finished the "Christmas Polka" and clicked off, and for a long time there was silence. Five days later the old man was dead.]]> 2022-06-06 20:48:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212666338 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212668062 Maniac said nothing. He was quite content to let Amanda do the talking, for he knew that behind her grumbling was all that he had ever wanted. He knew that finally, truly, at last, someone was calling him home.]]> 2022-06-06 20:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212668062 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212669438 he loved joining all the other colors at the vacant lot and playing the summer days away ]]> 2022-06-06 20:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212669438 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212744042 "Where are you running boy?"]]> 2022-06-06 23:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2212744042 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2213176674 He didn't run to the superintendent's office. He just ran to the nearest house.]]> 2022-06-07 06:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2213176674 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2213177492 "Yeah, you're bad all right, Mars Bar.]]> 2022-06-07 06:30:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2213177492 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2214008654 finally someone's calling him home ]]> 2022-06-07 19:13:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2214008654 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2214586644 "Maniac Magee finally had an address."]]> 2022-06-08 06:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2214586644 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2214593518 "It was about parents who were drunk a lot and always leaving him on his own; about being put in classes where they just cut paper and played games all day; about a teacher who whispered to a principal, just outside the classroom door, 'This bunch will never learn to read a stop sign.'"]]> 2022-06-08 06:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2214593518 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2214599138 "He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling his home."]]> 2022-06-08 06:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2214599138 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2215118097 Maniac Magee finally had an address]]> 2022-06-08 15:09:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2215118097 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2215121810 Every morning, same thing]]> 2022-06-08 15:13:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2215121810 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2215126097 He knew that finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home.]]> 2022-06-08 15:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2215126097 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2220942704 Maniac loved almost everything about his new life. But everything did not love him back.]]> 2022-06-14 15:38:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2220942704 https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2220946252 "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.]]> 2022-06-14 15:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemaria2/6hw279346blc/wish/2220946252