Jerry Spinelli







Jerry Spinelli

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born
February 01, 1941

gender
male

place of birth
Norristown, PA, The United States

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genre
Literature & Fiction


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When Jerry Spinelli was a kid, he wanted to grow up to be either a cowboy or a baseball player. Lucky for us he became a writer instead.

He grew up in rural Pennsylvania and went to college at Gettysburg College and Johns Hopkins University. He has published more than 25 books and has six children and 16 grandchildren.
Jerry Spinelli began writing when he was 16 — not much older than the hero of his book Maniac Magee. After his high school football team won a big game, his classmates ran cheering through the streets — all except Spinelli, who went home and wrote a poem about the victory. When his poem was published in the local paper, Spinelli decided to become a writer instead of a major-league shortstop.

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avg rating: 3.84 | 31,947 ratings | 5,642 reviews | 48 distinct works | 109 fans
Stargirl Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli
avg rating 3.89 — 12,296 ratings — published 2000
31 editions
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Maniac Magee Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli
avg rating 3.97 — 5,382 ratings — published 1990
25 editions
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Love, Stargirl Love, Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli
avg rating 3.79 — 2,944 ratings — published 2007
9 editions
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Loser Loser
by Jerry Spinelli
avg rating 3.70 — 2,107 ratings — published 2002
14 editions
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Milkweed Milkweed
by Jerry Spinelli
avg rating 3.99 — 1,302 ratings — published 2003
16 editions
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Wringer Wringer
by Jerry Spinelli
avg rating 3.55 — 1,152 ratings — published 1998
16 editions
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Eggs Eggs
by Jerry Spinelli
avg rating 3.58 — 1,052 ratings — published 2007
8 editions
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Crash Crash
by Jerry Spinelli
avg rating 3.72 — 1,005 ratings — published 1995
12 editions
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Library Card Library Card
by Jerry Spinelli
avg rating 3.48 — 390 ratings — published 1997
6 editions
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Smiles to Go Smiles to Go
by Jerry Spinelli
avg rating 3.61 — 280 ratings — published 2008
3 editions
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"Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry?

You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know."
Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl)
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""She was illusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.""
Jerry Spinelli
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"I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time.

--Stargirl

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Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl)
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