What Would Joey Do?

Name: What Would Joey Do?
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Jack Gantos
ISBN: 9780807209509

Author: Jack Gantos

Series: Joey Pigza #3

Narrator: Jack Gantos

Unabridged: 4 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 10/22/2002

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, School

Synopsis

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.

About The Author

Jack Gantos lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and is also the author of the Jack Henry books and a recent memoir for young adults, Hole in My Life. His first book about Joey Pigza, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, was a National Book Award Finalist. Its sequel, Joey Pigza Loses Control, was a Newbery Honor Book.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bethany on March 16, 2007

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' narrati......more

Goodreads review by Mahrya on November 12, 2008

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 tryi......more

Goodreads review by Mavis on July 20, 2018

I felt a sort of pity for this book. But this book took a very hilarious turn for Joey. But in real life, his childhood is miserable. His parents don’t even know he had existed. His bully is going to be his home school partner. And especially, it’s all up to him to fix it. Here’s a disclaimer that I......more

Goodreads review by Susan on September 02, 2016

This is the third in a series of books about Joey Pigza. In the first two books Joey was evidently diagnosed with ADHD and, after a series of incidents at his original school, sent to a special school. Joey is certainly having a tough time - his parents are too busy with their love/hate separation d......more