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  2. Maniac Magee - Wikipedia

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    Maniac Magee is a novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and published in 1990. Exploring themes of racism and inequality, it follows the story of an orphan boy looking for a home in the fictional town of Two Mills. Two Mills is harshly segregated between the East and West, blacks and whites.

  3. Jerry Spinelli - Wikipedia

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    Spinelli was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, [3] and currently lives in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.At the age of 16, his love of sports inspired him to compose a poem about a recent football victory, which his father published in the local newspaper without his knowledge.

  4. Maniac Magee (film) - Wikipedia

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    Maniac Magee is a television film made for the Nickelodeon network, based on the novel of the same name by Jerry Spinelli. [1] The story follows twelve-year-old Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee, an orphaned runaway with many extraordinary and athletic talents, who arrives in a town divided with racial conflict.

  5. Wringer (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Wringer was praised by critics for its ability to address deep issues for middle schoolers, as did its precursor, Maniac Magee.In a School Library Journal review of Wringer, Tim Rausch cited the novel for "Humor, suspense, a bird with a personality, and a moral dilemma familiar to everyone," characters who are "memorable, convincing, and both endearing and villainous," and a "riveting plot."

  6. Talk:Maniac Magee - Wikipedia

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    It states that "Jerry [Spinelli] was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He lived in a brick row house in a neighborhood that later became a model for Two Mills, the town in Maniac Magee." Hopefully this book will have another reference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maniacmagee (talk • contribs) 15:09, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

  7. Retired principal Norina Bentzel publishes memoir about ...

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    Retired elementary school principal Norina Bentzel has written a memoir about the 2001 attack her school by a machete-wielding maniac. The book is available on Amazon now.

  8. Moral Injury - The Huffington Post

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    Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.

  9. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    The Big Book, first published in 1939, was the size of a hymnal. With its passionate appeals to faith made in the rat-a-tat cadence of a door-to-door salesman, it helped spawn other 12-step-based institutions, including Hazelden, founded in 1949 in Minnesota. Hazelden, in turn, would become a model for facilities across the country.

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