Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli is an American writer of children's novels that feature adolescence and early adulthood. He is best known for Maniac Magee and Wringer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth1 February 1941
CityNorristown, PA
CountryUnited States of America
individuality fit standing-out
Why fit in when you're born to stand out?
doorways fit his-smile
His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
curious backgrounds turns
I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
laughing firsts taught
She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's; but timid introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life
realizing
I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched
race uncomfortable humans
Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
reading book surprise
I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.
nice eye years
Where were we?" she said. "Getting credit," I said. "What about it?" "Well, it's nice to get credit." The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. "Is it?" she said.
names said milkweed
Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.
stones crosses creeks
Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.
boys embrace blanket
The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.
heart head-and-heart historian
Heart and head are contrary historians.
stars heart self
Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. Tell me that right around noon today (eastern time) you had the strangest sensation: a tiny chill on your shoulder...a flutter in the heart...a shadow of strawberry-banana crossing your tongue...tell me you whispered my name.
stars people
Star people are rare.