| A | B |
| Jeffrey Lionel Magee | Maniac Magee |
| Sad/ scream @chorus concert | Happy/Hallelujah with Lester and Hester |
| Began in PA | Ended up in CT |
| East End | Blacks lived |
| West End | Whites lived |
| Amanda carried a suitcase containing | Her library |
| Maniac intercepted a pass intended for | Hands Down |
| At Finisterwald's | A phantom samaritan saves Arnold Jones |
| Instead of finsterwallies | Maniac reads a book on the steps |
| A good place to get a free meal | Pickwells |
| McNab | Only threw fast balls |
| Maniac at bat | Hit homeruns and a frog ball inside the park homerun! |
| Maniac originally lived | At the deer shed in the Elmwood Park Zoo |
| runt means | small person or animal |
| Running, Maniac was able to | stay balanced on the rail carrying a book |
| Cobras | West End Gang |
| Hector Street | Dividing line |
| A big bare toe in a convention of snapping turtles | A no win situation |
| Mars Bar Thompson offers Maniac | A bite of his candy bar |
| You think you're bad... | You think you are tough and cool? |
| Fishbelly | white person |
| finicky | excessively particular |
| Mrs. Beale calls Jeffrey | The Book Boy |
| Maniac loved the "728" | He now had a real address |
| Maniac slept on the floor | mattress felt like a scoop of mashed potatoes |
| Maniac is allergic to | Pizza |
| Hester & Lester loves Maniac to | take baths with them & untie knots |
| To Maniac ,blacks were | All kinds of different colors & never actually black |
| Jeffrey was blind to | Prejudice |
| When Mrs. Beale got mad at Maniac | It demonstrated she really cared for him |