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October 21st 2002
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
(first published 2002)
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Hardcover, 240 pages
isbn
0374399867
(isbn13: 9780374399863)
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Modern literature's unlikely hero Joey Pigza is back in Jack Gantos's grand finale to the award-winning trilogy that began with Joey Pigza Swallowed …more
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Read in November, 2008
recommends it for:
Ages 8-14
Gantos, Jack. What Would Joey Do? Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 229 pages. Fictional chapter book, series book.
Description: Ever since going on medicine for ADHD, Joey is intent on helping people. He tries to help his childish parents, his ailing grandma and a blind girl who he is also desperately trying to befriend. In the end, Joey realizes that you really only have control over yourself.
Review: What Would Joey Do? does a wonderful job of occupying the headspace of the hy...more
Description: Ever since going on medicine for ADHD, Joey is intent on helping people. He tries to help his childish parents, his ailing grandma and a blind girl who he is also desperately trying to befriend. In the end, Joey realizes that you really only have control over yourself.
Review: What Would Joey Do? does a wonderful job of occupying the headspace of the hy...more
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The story is about a child named Joey Pigza who has ADHD.His father Carter Pigza, who also has ADHD is riding his motorcycle around the neighborhood. Joey's mother comes out to scream at him, resulting in him crashing his motorcycle into a tree, where a branch stabs him. Joey's mom has him homeschooled by Mrs. Lapp, along with a cruel blind girl named Olivia Lapp, whom his grandma wants Joey to make friends with. His father kept on bugging their family so they put a restraining order to keep hi...more
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This book is about a boy name Joey who makes a smart decision that changes his life around. His decision was to be more careful about what he says to adults and classmates, and to do everything that is exspected of him by his teachers. That really changed his life and what people think of him now.
I can connect to this book because last year before 7th grade was over me and my friends were hanging out and we was talking about 8th grade and I said 8th grade is important. We have to chang...more
I can connect to this book because last year before 7th grade was over me and my friends were hanging out and we was talking about 8th grade and I said 8th grade is important. We have to chang...more
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Read in March, 2007
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When asked to make a list of his wishes, Joey comes up with "I wish my dog could speak," and "I wish jam and jelly were the same thing." That was only one of the moments in the book that made me want to laugh out loud. The book is not just funny, but also thoughtful and sad at times. Gantos' narrative feels rather like a hurricane, but then, so does Joey's behavior. The ending is happy without being trite and makes a nice resolution for the series.
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This book really surprised me! It totally blew me away, in my opinion surpassing the quality of "Joey Pigza Loses Control" by a good margine, and rating right up there with "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key". Few people can write with the dead-on perception of Jack Gantos when he is at his best, and the magical insightfulness entwined in these pages spoke to my heart as resoundingly and personally as did the first Joey Pigza volume. I feel as if I not only know Joey Pigza person...more
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This one is different. Not really age appropriate. Everything with his parents disturbed and upset me. Some parts were cute, but I was really bothered by the stuff with his parents.
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I remember reading this book back in elementary school and i would read joey pigza every school year. I really like book
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Read in April, 2008
recommends it for:
4th or 5th grade boys
A fabulous insight into the struggles and strengths of children with ADD and ADHD. Joey seems like a hyperactive kid who can't focus, but he has the most tender of hearts and just longs for order in his chaotic life. I was a little annoyed by how ridiculously rude Olivia Lapp was to Joey-- made it very difficult to sympathize with her character. Also, the representation of Mrs. Lapp as a straitlaced religious mother was a bit stereotypical and therefore one-dimensional. The depth in Joey's chara...more
Read in April, 2009
I need to read the first two. It's pretty much a trilogy based on the kids I teach.
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Joey has treated ADD and an untreated ADD father. Annika loves these books.
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recommends it for:
anyone who knows someone with ADD or ADHD
I cried like a baby reading this.
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Read in September, 2004
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the author's reputation preceded himrecommends it for: anyone with or who knows someone with ADD/ADHD
This is my favorite of the three books. Joey is growing up and his dying grandmother (I love her!) is the only person who really understands him. Read my review of "Joey Pigza Swallows the Key" to get more of a review of the premise of the series.
The relationship between Joey and his grandmother is unique but the situation of grandparents raising grandchildren is increasingly more common these days.
The relationship between Joey and his grandmother is unique but the situation of grandparents raising grandchildren is increasingly more common these days.
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Read in August, 2008
I really like the Joey series. I missed the middle one, so I'm going to go back to it. I think I might use it as a read-aloud for my class this year. It's of the new brand of juvenile fiction that's true to life (messed up parents, poverty, adhd protaganist) but without being too deep or depressing or too adult in the way it deals with the problems.
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Read in April, 2009
A nice wrap up to the trilogy of stories about Joey and his totally crazy family. I love that these books are funny, sad, and honest without being preachy. I love Joey!
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Read in April, 2007
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Gantos die-hards
This book isn't as astounding as the previous books. Joey still struggles with his ADHD, but his parents, including his once responsible mother, behave ridiculously — without any concern for their son. It's a new twist in Joey's life, but it makes me wonder if Gantos is running out of material.
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Read in April, 2003
A 5th grade teacher was looking for something or other that this book fit in to, so I read it and booktalked it to her class. It was my first Joey Pigza book, but not my last.
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This book is AMAZING! I loved it. Even though I was forced to read it by my school after I started I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend this book.
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The Joey Pigza series are books that special education students can really relate to. He is always getting himself into some sort of trouble.
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