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1 Jerry Spinelli Biography by Scholastic Book List Question and Answer Interview

2 Maniac Magee Part I Vocabulary

3 maniac a madman a lunatic crazy person a person that is wildly enthusiastic about something. Example:

4 legacy something left to a person, a history of them your remembered by something important people tend to leave a legacy Examples: George Washington, Babe Ruth, Michael Jackson

5 trolley- a streetcar Maniac’s parents took the P & W high-speed trolley into the city.

6 bellowing - shouting angrily Jeffrey was bellowing out in the middle of the concert to his Aunt and Uncle.

7 commotion - pandemonium, chaos, noisy confusion There was a commotion in the West End at 803 Oriole Street.

8 infamous - having an evil reputation 803 Oriole Street is considered to be the infamous address of Finsterwald.

9 suffice - to be enough Suffice it to say that occasionally if you see some poor raggedy kid shuffling through town, word would spread that this was once a bright, happy child who had the misfortune of going into Finsterwald’s yard.

10 hoist - to lift Arnold Jones was being hoisted in the air above Finsterwald’s backyard fence.

11 flinched - to draw back, as in from pain As the baseball came towards McNab, he flinched just in time.

12 pandemonium - a wild uproar Three more pitches. Three more home runs. Pandemonium on the sidelines. It was raining red and green hats!

13 solitude - being alone Maniac loved the silence and solitude of his early morning runs with Bow Wow.

14 converge - to come together The East End converged for a Fourth of July block party.

15 poleax - to strike with great force Maniac could poleax a stickball like a twelfth- grader and catch a football like Hands Down.

16 unbeknownst - unknown Unbeknownst to Amanda, Maniac always found her encyclopedia A and read it.

17 hibernate - to spend the winter in sleep Maniac told Amanda he would use a hibernating gopher to use as a pillow.

18 sneer - to show contempt with words or expression Amanda sneered at Maniac when she was angry with him.

19 eons - thousands of years Eons later when Maniac came to town, Cobble’s Corner Grocery store was still there.

20 contortions - twists and turns The knot was made of string but it had more contortions than the brain of Albert Einstein.

21 Irony deliberate expressing ideas so they could be understood in two ways reality is different than what happens or from our expectations ex. Maniac is allergic to pizza and the prize for untying Cobble’s knot was pizza.


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