A few days later, his poem was published in the local newspaper. After the game, he went home and wrote a poem about the game. That same year, Spinelli's high school football team won a big game. The old neighborhood had been Spinelli's world for ten years, and he missed it terribly.
He still attended the same school and had the same friends, but he no longer felt the same. Everything changed when his family moved to a new house. He was class president, king of the ninth grade prom, and had a girlfriend. When Spinelli was in the ninth grade, he felt as though he was on top of the world. He also read books by Clair Bee who wrote a series of books about Chip Hilton, a high school athlete. He reserved reading for times when he was "bored." He did, however, read comic books and had a subscription for Bugs Bunny comic books. Spinelli didn't read much as a child because he was always too busy playing sports. Spinelli was always involved in one sport or another - he played basketball, track and field, football, and Little League baseball (he always wanted to be a major league baseball player). When Spinelli wasn't in school, he spent time riding his bicycle, skimming stones across Stony Creek, flipping baseball cards, and running on the railroad tracks behind their house. Spinelli grew to love the neighborhood - it was home.
They spent the next ten years in this house. When Spinelli was six years old, his parents bought a house in the West End of Norristown, so they moved once more. A few years later, his family moved a few streets away, to a house located just two doors away from his grandparents' house, and in 1945, his brother, Billy, was born. His family lived in an apartment that was situated in front of a smelly brewery in the East End of Norristown. Spinelli was born on February 1, 1941, in Norristown, Pennsylvania, to Lou Spinelli, a typesetter, and Lorna Bigler. Spinelli relies on memories of his own adolescence and the real-life events that have occurred in the lives of his six children to convey his views of the world to his audience. At times, he has experienced parental objections because his stories are seemingly "too realistic." His young readers, however, relate to his characters and their dilemmas because they share similar experiences. Spinelli's writing concerns controversial topics such as racism, sexism, and homelessness, while accurately and humorously depicting adolescents. Since then, he has written over fifteen novels for adolescents, about adolescence. Jerry Spinelli's first published novel was Space Station Seventh Grade (1982). Study Help for All 1990s Newbery Medal Winners.
Introduction to the 1990s Newbery Medal Winners.
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