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183rd out of 415 books
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257 voters
Losing Joe's Place
Jason and his two friends move into Jason's brother's apartment and manage to wreak havoc in it during one funny and memorable summer.
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
October 1st 1991
by Scholastic Paperbacks
(first published April 1st 1990)
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From the back cover, Kevin, my ten year old nephew, said, "It's weird." And he put it down.
Wacky was more like it. Gordon Korman books, as I remembered it, always had a logical progression of events, but between all the strange characters and situations, they snowball into something completely surreal.
This book is no different. That's why it's on my shelf. I picked it up again and read.
Jason and his two best friends are allowed to stay in his big brother's, Joe's, appartment for the summer. T...more
Wacky was more like it. Gordon Korman books, as I remembered it, always had a logical progression of events, but between all the strange characters and situations, they snowball into something completely surreal.
This book is no different. That's why it's on my shelf. I picked it up again and read.
Jason and his two best friends are allowed to stay in his big brother's, Joe's, appartment for the summer. T...more
Losing Joe's place is about a boy who has his older brothers house to himself and his friends for a couple of days. His older brother comes back and the place is for lease. Joe's younger brother had lost the lease and everything was falling apart.
I can connect this book to real life because people lose important things of there friends or family sometimes.I can connect this to The outsiders because Pony boy did some bad things and had to go away for a while.
I would give this book a three star...more
I can connect this book to real life because people lose important things of there friends or family sometimes.I can connect this to The outsiders because Pony boy did some bad things and had to go away for a while.
I would give this book a three star...more
Great middle/high school humorous approach to living on your own, keeping a job, learning to cook, and dating. Two Teens join their friend as he takes over big brother Joe's place for the summer. Enter some seShady new acquaintances and some creative solutions to clearly preventable mishaps and you have the perfect ingredients for a "chocolate surprise" complete with whipped cream and cherry.
This laugh-out-loud tale of Gordan Korman's would be great as a read-aloud, or, as I intend to use it to...more
This laugh-out-loud tale of Gordan Korman's would be great as a read-aloud, or, as I intend to use it to...more
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This book is defiantly for pre-teens and teens. I could so relate to the book because of the locations used. Going to a big city and working would be the only escape.
I've never read a book that could come close to compare with the plot, very original. Sure Korman had a lot of chance in the book, but I liked it over all, the way everything seemed to be realistic.
I've never read a book that could come close to compare with the plot, very original. Sure Korman had a lot of chance in the book, but I liked it over all, the way everything seemed to be realistic.
This is one of those books that I know is corny, and not very good, but I liked anyway. It's a teenager book, and I know this. No one else is going to like it but teenagers. But I enjoyed it all the same. It's like that one action movie that you know sucks and are embarrassed to tell anyone you like but you watch it over and over again all the same.
Gordon Korman is one of the great Canadian authors not because his writings are commentaries on life but because his writing is just so entertaining. For example, this particular book has a character named Rootbeer Racinette. For those of you who do not read French, that's Rootbeer Rootbeer.
This book was Great I've been searching every where on what this book was called because i forgot.i finally found it. My brother brought it home one day from school. it was just lying there on the floor so i read it one day, and i could not stop. I totally recommend this book for boys and girls.
OMG I picked this up and meant to read just the first chapter tonight, but I couldn't put it down. This was one of those books that I would check out from the library AGAIN and AGAIN when I was little. I can't even sum up its awesomeness. I adore Gordon Korman and this book especially.
This book is about: A young kid (I forget his name) who uses up all his money and has to get a job with his three friends at a bubble wand factory. He also takes over for a while, the sour manager's shop, creating a new recipe.
Jason and his friends stay in his big brother's big city apartment for the summer. A five-star book through the multiple, multiple re-reads of my childhood, and still funny and original enough to earn four stars now.
Equally as hilarious as Toliet Paper Tigers, if not more so. I had Ben in hysterics as we read this together, and anyone who knows Ben's attitude towards reading knows that is truly an achievement.
Maybe it's because it was one of my junior-high favorites, but I bought and read Losing Joe's Place again recently and loved it even more than I had as a kid. Just a great, fun book.
Definitely one of my favourite books of all time. I know, it's corny, it's simple, and it's written for children. Probably 3/3 of the necessary ingredients for a successful book (at least in my opinion)
I've always liked Gordon Korman and this book lived up to his style. It was a light, fun read, which was exactly what I was looking for!
Although the character Jason drove me crazy, this book made me laugh out loud several times.
This book is fun o read and its not like a book were you get bord of it its fun.
First read this as a teen, and re-read recently. It's definitely a youth book - that is and always has been Korman's market - but it's enjoyable. Not, perhaps, as laugh-out-loud funny as when I was 15, but still funny. I remembered a surprising amount of it on the re-read, which is usually a sign of an imaginative, unique book. The boys' evil landlord and their terrifying roommate Rootbeer Rancinette are especially colorful. Korman has always been a favorite youth humor author of mine: I've coll...more
This cracked me up when I was a kid! I read it so often that it fell apart, literally.
i still try to avoid "executive burnout." this book is funny even as an adult.
A fun read about a Summer of friendship.
Just a funny, entertaining book.
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Gordon Korman is a genius!
This book was really good!!!!
this book is not on reading counts list
I didn't realize it at the time, but this felt like NYC when he described the perfect apartment, and the start of a business so crazy that it succeeds :D Great book - never saw the movie, though, I suspect it disappoints.
Loved this book. I picked it up because it was written by one of my favourite authors, Gordon Korman. It had an amazing storyline and ending too go with it too.
One of my favorite books about friendship and the lengths we'll go to to avoid job-hunting.
I read this with my 13 year old and he would bust up laughing. HE LOVED IT!
The book made me laugh out loud. It is one of Korman's best ideas.
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Korman wrote his first book, "This Can't be Happening at Macdonald Hall", when he was 12 years old, for a coach who suddenly found himself teaching 7th grade English. He later took that episode and created a book out of it, as well, in "The Sixth Grade Nickname Game", wherein Mr. Huge was based on that 7th grade teacher.
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