to go after Jeffrey proclaiming him as a "maniac". Jeffrey makes a run for it back across the East End urged by the white boys not to come back over. On the East End, Jeffrey runs by a school and meets with a girl his age named Amanda Beale (Kyla Pratt), who is surprised to see him given his skin color. Realizing she has a suitcase full of books, Jeffrey urges her to let him borrow one and promises to bring it back to her. Jeffrey goes to read the book under a tree and catches the eye of Mars Bar Thompson (Orlando Brown) and his friend Bump Gilliam (Shan Elliot). Mars goes to pick a fight with Jeffrey and rips a page out of Amanda's book. Amanda comes over and scolds Mars and sends him away. Amanda takes Jeffrey over to her house so he can fix her book where Jeffrey meets her mother Martha (Rolonda Watts) who assumes he isn't from the town. When Amanda asks if he can stay for dinner, her mother refuses until her younger children, twins Hester and Lester, beg her otherwise. After dinner, Mr. Beale (Richard Lawson) goes to drive Jeffrey home only to discover along the way he doesn't have one. He takes Jeffrey back and talks to Martha, who persuades him to let Jeffrey stay for a while. Jeffrey is treated with absolute kindness by the Beales. Martha buys him new clothes. Hester and Lester promote Jeffrey's ability to untie knots to the other children in the neighborhood who come by to see him over by Amanda's tent. Jeffrey has another encounter with Mars Bar during a football game and stuns Mars when eating off of his already-eaten chocolate bar. Back on Hector Street, a man collapses in front of Cobble's Corner. As Jeffrey tries to lift him up, the man and Mr. Cobble scolds him to go back over to his own side. When he and Amanda return home, they find Martha scrubbing off profanity that was written on the house that reads: "FISH BELLY GO HOME" that horrifies Jeffrey. Amanda worries he will leave. To help him gain the community's respect, she suggests he unties Mr. Cobble's huge knot which no one has been able to do. The next day, Mr. Cobble lets Jeffrey perform the task of untying the knot ball which he does successfully and amazes the