Ch.18

How would you feel if your parents died and all you were left with was your name? Jeffrey Lionel Magee was about three years old when his parents died, so he went to live with his Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan. Jeffrey’s aunt and uncle would not share anything, so he ran away when he was about eight. He ran for about a year until he reached a town called Two Mills. When he was there, he wandered around town until he met this girl named Amanda Beale. She was on her way to school and she was carrying a suitcase full of books. Jeffrey borrows a book and when he is finished, he went to her to give it back to her. Mr. and Mrs. Beale find out that Jeffrey doesn’t have a home so he lives there for a while but some black people hate him, so he runs away to the zoo. A guy named Grayson finds him and they live together, but Grayson dies. So Jeffrey runs away and finds Russell and Piper McNab who want to run away to Mexico. So Jeffrey made a deal with them that if they go to school, he’d take them. Jeffrey saw that the McNabs hate black people so he left. Where will he live next?