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Maniac Magee
Jeffrey Lionel Magee is a legendary character who runs the rails faster than other kids run the ground. Jeffrey bunts “the world's first frogball for a four-bagger” and performs other amazing feats.- Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1991 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 0-316-80722-2
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Wringer
Palmer LaRue dreads his approaching birthday because he does not want to be a wringer, one of the ten-year-old boys who breaks the necks of pigeons wounded at the town's pigeon shoot fund-raiser. When his three bullying friends suspect he is sheltering a stray pigeon, Palmer decides to take a personal stand against this annual rite of passage.
- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1998 (Honor Title)
- Middle, Older
- ISBN: (0-06-024913-7)