His parents were killed in a trolley accident over the Schuylkill River. During the next eight years, Jeffrey lives with his Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. The household is extremely dysfunctional because his aunt and uncle never speak to each other.

Maniac runs away at the beginning of the novel because he’s fed up with his aunt and uncle. His parents were killed in an accident when he was…

Falling Action Maniac is disappointed by the behavior in Two Mills and is upset that he can’t fix the problems himself; he is alone and unsure about the future.

How could we not, when Maniac Magee finally ends with Maniac simply content that “finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home” (46.27). After the miles and miles Maniac’s seen-better-days sneakers chewed up, the book ends with him heading home to the place he’s been looking for this whole time.

In this novel of a young boy’s attempt to unify the town of Two Mills, Spinelli juxtaposes three distinct themes: homelessness, racial prejudice, and literacy.

Why did life become unbearable for Maniac with Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan? Maniac began to scream in order to get his and Aunt and Uncle to communicate with one another. The screaming was a release of pent-up hostility and the move for Maniac Magee’s move for independence.

Why does Amanda finally give Maniac a book? She gives him the book because he promises to bring it back and because she is going to be late for school.

Maniac didn’t want to race Mars Bar to begin with. The other boy has always been belligerent towards him because he is white, and he only wants to race Maniac because he wants to show him up. Mars Bar thinks he can beat Maniac because has been working out, and has gotten a fantastic new pair of sneakers.

Mars Bar Thompson

About 30 kids follow Maniac as far as Hector Street. Maniac isn’t afraid of anyone in the East End. He’s more afraid of the problems his presence might cause. After four blocks, he hears a familiar call of “Yo—fishbelly!” It’s Mars Bar.

1 : a box for pills especially : a shallow round box of pasteboard. 2 : a small low concrete emplacement for machine guns and antitank weapons.

Pillboxes or blockhouses were miniature forts developed by the German army to give their trench lines extra strength. The term pillbox was used by the British soldiers because the reinforced concrete construction was the same shape as the boxes in which chemists supplied tablets during the war.

A pillbox hat is a small hat, usually worn by women, with a flat crown, straight, upright sides, and no brim. It is named after the small cylindrical or hexagonal cases that pills used to be sold in.

A pillbox is a type of blockhouse, or concrete dug-in guard post, normally equipped with loopholes through which to fire weapons. It is in effect a trench firing step hardened to protect against small-arms fire and grenades and raised to improve the field of fire.

The “Pillbox Bat Co.” name pays tribute to the old Downtown Park in St. Paul, Minnesota. The owners chose that name to pay homage to what baseball is all about – a simple game played on the local sandlot. The company’s maple bat designs harken back to early-1900s styles and feature hand-painted artwork on each bat.

A pill organiser, pill container, dosette box, pillcase or pillbox is a multicompartment compliance aid for storing scheduled doses of medications.

Though some pillboxes are protected through scheduling and listing; often because of their rarity, level of preservation or historical significance (and the fact that someone took the time to apply to have the structure protected), the majority are not protected by listing/scheduling.

The pillbox is one of several scattered around the island, and reclaimed by communities as centerpieces at busy trails across Oahu. Koko Crater, Makapuu, Maili and Ehukai: They all feature pillboxes — and they’ve all become a hiker’s ideal destination point to take in some of Oahu’s most beautiful views.

From this and other surveys, it is estimated that some 28,000 pillboxes and other hardened field fortifications were constructed in the United Kingdom, of which about 6,500 still survive. The project also resulted in the discovery of many relevant records. For many pillboxes, a new use has been found.

David P. Wagner