When he was 3, Jeffrey Lionel Magee was sent to live with his aunt and uncle after his parents died in an accident. After eight years of serving as a go between for his aunt and uncle who refused to talk to each other, he ran away to the town of Two Mills, a town where African-Americans live on the East Side and Whites on the West Side.

How did he survive? Is it true rats kept an eye on him while he slept? Or he had cockroaches as pets? Discover the real story about Jeffrey Magee by reading, Maniac Magee , by Jerry Spinelli.