These are words like crash, buzz, screech, and chomp.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
This is an old man who loves baseball.
Who is Grayson?
100
This is the animal pen Maniac Magee was found outside of, dirty and with torn clothes.
What is the buffalo pen?
100
This vocabulary word refers to a person who is new at playing a sport.
What is a rookie?
100
Questioner: Where did Grayson bring Maniac back to for a hot shower?
What is the YMCA?
200
Jeffrey acts very independent, but secretly he really wants a home. What kind of a conflict is this?
What is an internal conflict?
200
Jeffrey really loved these people but was afraid he was going to make their lives more difficult if he stayed in their neighborhood.
Who are the Beales?
200
What is the neighborhood everyone thinks Jeffrey doesn't belong in?
What is the East End?
200
You have this if you or your memory lives on forever.
What is immortality?
200
Summarizer:
These were the Laredo Lariats, the Toledo Mud Hens, the Bluefield Bullets, , the Pedukah Twin Oaks and the Natchez Pelicans
What are the minor leagues Grayson played for?
300
In Maniac Magee, the beginning of Part II begins with events as seen through the baby buffalo's eyes. What is this literary device called?
What is point of view?
300
This is the animal who was moved from the pen to make room for the buffalo.
What is the deer?
300
This is the place Grayson had to wash dishes, which caused him to miss his first game with the Bluefield Bullets.
What is the Blue Star Diner?
300
This is what the baby buffalo did to Jeffrey when it saw him sleeping in the buffalo pen.
What is nuzzle?
300
Questioner: Grayson was so surprised that the Beales did these things because they were black.
What is ate meatloaf and peas and corn and brushed their teeth?
400
This is when an author writes descriptively, to help you use all of your five senses.
What is imagery?
400
Jeffrey used the money Grayson gave him for butterscotch krimpets to buy these.
What are books?
400
The baseball equipment room was a closet in the back of this building.
What is the band shell?
400
This is how the people looked at Jeffrey when Jeffrey untied Cobble's knot.
What is gawked?
400
Word wizard:
This word describes struggling to lift someone or something, usually because it is heavy.
What is to hoist?
500
Grayson told Jeffrey the US Army had to haul his dirty clothes away with gas masks, put them in a steel box, and bury the box at the bottom of a mine shaft. This is an example of what kind of literary device?
What is hyperbole (overstatement or exaggeration)?
500
Why didn't Jeffrey want to go to school?
School reminded him of just a daytime home and made him wish for a home more. Plus, he had lots of his own books he was learning from.
500
This was the place Grayson worked as a maintenance man.
What is the Elmwood Park Zoo?
500
Grayson used "realistic dialogue" like "Gotta Go," "Ain't that something," and "Yep, that's it." Why?
What is realistic dialogue because it makes conversation sound more real and tells us something about a character.
500
Questioner:
Why did Grayson asked his bosses at the Elmwood Park Zoo if he could work part time for a while?
He wanted to make time for Jeffrey to teach him to read.