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Title details for What Would Joey Do? by Jack Gantos - Available

What Would Joey Do?

#3 in series

by Jack Gantos
Jack Gantos
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Are they flirting or fighting? This is Joey Pigza’s question when the fireworks suddenly start to explode between his long-separated mom and dad, whom he’s never really had a chance to see together. The more out of control his parents get, the less in control Joey feels and the more he wants to help make things better. But Joey’s ailing, tell-it-like-it-is grandmother wants her grandson to see it like it is with his unpredictable parents. Knowing that she is fading fast, she needs Joey to hurry up and show that he can break the Pigza family mold by making a friend in the outside world. The only potential candidate, however, is Olivia Lapp–Joey’s blind home schooling partner, who brags that she is “blind as a brat” and gets meaner to Joey the more desperate he gets for her friendship–even if Joey senses there’s more to her than meets the eye.
In this dazzling conclusion to the Joey Pigza trilogy, Jack Gantos’s acclaimed hyperactive hero is discovering that settling down isn’t good for anything if he can’t find a way to stop the people he cares about from winding him up all over again.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Joey Pigza

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    October 22, 2002

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780739330746
      • File size: 138398 KB
      • Duration: 04:48:19

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 5.1
    • Lexile® Measure: 860
    • Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    • Text Difficulty: 4-5

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In the two previous Joey Pigza books, Jack Gantos's frenetic writing style brilliantly mirrored Joey's "wired" behavior. But in this last in the trilogy, Joey's the one who has himself under control while wacky things happen all around him, and he desperately tries to help everyone from his ailing Grandma to his missing dog, his belligerent homeschooling partner, and his warring parents. Joey has never been more engaging, and while there are lots of laugh-out-loud moments, there's poignancy, too. The story is told from Joey's first-person perspective, and Gantos is the perfect voice for him. He doesn't sound like a kid; he sounds like Joey. His low-key but inflected reading makes the antics that much more plausible. Fans will be sorry to see Joey go but can be assured, as Gantos says in an afterword, that Joey IS a good kid and will be a great success. J.M.D. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 12, 2004
      The final title in the saga that includes the Newbery Honor book Joey Pigza Loses Control
      finds the hero flustered by his parent's questionable reunion and his ailing grandmother's efforts to push Joey to make friends. Ages 10-up.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 21, 2002
      This fall offers fans a fresh crop of sequels. The final title in the Joey Pigza saga, What Would Joey Do? by Jack Gantos, finds the hero flustered by his parent's questionable reunion and his ailing grandmother's efforts to push Joey to make friends.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:5.1
  • Lexile® Measure:860
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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