February 3, 2010

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1. Jerry Spinelli is known best for his Newbery Award-winning book Maniac Magee.
2. Spinelli is popular because he accepts kids for what they are.
3. Spinelli's first fame was when the local newspaper published a poem he wrote about the football team winning
4. Spinelli is an author of children's novels on adolecence and early adulthood.
5. Went to Gettysburg College and Johns Hopkins University.
6. Spinelli gets his ideas from the children.
7. He decided to become a baseball player.
8. He became a writter after the poem he wrote to the newspaper after it got published.
9. His books have also been translated into different languages such as, Chinese, Japanese, and Greek.
10. He has seven children and lives in Pennsylvania.
















2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the post! See if you can edit the works cited section before the blog's due. Additionally, don't forget to check for complete sentences.

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  2. Nice post. Really, it was good. But check your grammar, you may have a few errors. But all in all, keep up the good work.


    Kat Kea :)

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