As a little boy, Maniac Magee went to school like other children his age. When he ran away from his aunt and uncle's house, he left school behind. He did not return when he arrived in Two Mills.
When Grayson asks Maniac about going to school, the boy tells him that he refuses to go. Grayson asks him why. Ever since Maniac left his aunt and uncle's house, he had yearned for a home and an address of his own. To Maniac,
a school seems sort of like a big home, but only a day home, because then it empties out; and you can't stay there at night because it's not really a home, and you could never use it as your address, because an address is where you stay at night, where you walk right in the front door without knocking, where everybody talks to each other and uses the same toaster.
Maniac knows that if he goes to school in Two Mills, at the end of the day he will have no home to return to. The other children will go back home after school gets out each day. Maniac would be the only one with no home to return to. He decides that he will not attend school until he has a home to go back to at night.
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