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Summary: Time with dad
Review: Joey pigza is on his way to viset his dad who lives in pitsburg. His dad is not what you expect. His grandma has gotten sick from smoking. joeys dad coaches a baceball team and makes joey the begenning picher. It is a suppriseing and adventurous story
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Summary: Joey Pigza loses Control reveiw!
Review: The book Joey Pigza Loses control is a very weird book. It was about a kid who wants to go and meet his Dad. His dad ran away when he was very little. Finally his dream comes true. Joey takes medicine to make him less hyper. His dad takes his medication from him. So this is making him mad and hyper. Then Joey gets to be on his dad's baseball team. Joey's dad is trying to turn Joey's life around. You will enjoy this funny and short book. If you like baseball, dogs, bungee jumping then you will like this book. You will have fun reading this book because I did.
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Summary: Joey Pizga Loses Control
Review: "Ha,Ha!" I loved this book, laughing.... that whole book was so funny! Joey is a cool, funny, interesting and very annoying kid. Joey was living with his dad all summer and also with his crazy grandmother! Joey was very hyper! Before going and living with his dad all summer his mother took him to the doctor and the doctor gave him patches to calm him down.(Did it work? I know but I am not telling..... read the book!) Living with dad was great untill his dad flushed the patches down the toilet. To find out more about this amazing book READ IT! I would reccomend this book to all ages! I loved it!
-Madi
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Summary: Joey Rocks.
Review: This book is great. Joey made me laugh. He is a great kid. I cannot put this book down! I recommend it to everyone. I am studying to be a teacher and I will be reading this series out loud to my classroom.
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Summary: ...Joey Pigza Loses Control
Review: Some kids live with only one parent because their parents are divorced. Joey Pigza has lived with only his Grandma until one day his mom comes back and takes control of the house. Now Joey is going to meet his father, the reason his mom ran away to go find him. Joey's mom says that Joey's dad is just like what Joey used to be like before he got patches, crazy and out of control. Joey doesn't think this when his dad goes on a rampage during a baseball game. To find this event and many more funny and serious events, you have to read this book.
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Summary: Joey Pigza is Awesome!
Review: In the book "Joey Pigza Loses Controll" by Jack Gantos, Joey is forced to live with his dad for the summer. Joey tries to love his dad, but with his big mouth, it seems that Joey never gets to say anything! If you think that's bad, you probably havent met Joey's scary Grandmother, who lives with Mr.Pigza. When Joey was little, she used to lock Joey in a refrigerator! Joey has a problem with being hyper, and Joey's dad flushes his medicated patches down the toilet, while he tells Joey he needs to become a "real man". This definatly does not help Joey. At least Joey is smart enough to know that he has to call his mom to pick him up, SOON, before something worse happens!
I think this book is very good. Once you start reading it, you will never stop thinking about Joey. I hope there are going to be more Joey Pigza Books!
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Summary: Think, think, think....
Review: THINK! That's what Joey's dad does for the whole summer---strong thinking at a kiddie park after dark. Joey visits his "big-self" and his nutsie Grandmother. Luckily, Joey has his trusty pal Pablo along to help him along the way. Will Joey be his old self again before his mother arrives at the end of the summer? FIND OUT!!
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Summary: Joey Pigza Loses Control
Review: This book is really funny. It's about a kid, Joey, that goes to live with his dad.Joey is really hyper, and his dad is wierd because he's always flipping out. Dad even acts wierd when he goes to Story Book Land. Joey's dad is meanest when they're at baseball games because whenever somone doesn't hit the ball or throw a strike, he freaks out. Joey's dad flushed all of Joey's medicine down the toilet.The grandma is really wierd too. She's on an oxygen tank and she's always coughing. At the end,even Joey's mom is wierd. She dyed her hair red. You really should read this book. I liked it and I didn't even want to read it at first.
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Summary: Joey is fictional but the tale is a real look at ADD
Review: It was refreshing to read what felt like the truth about the life of Joey, an ADD boy; how he thinks, acts and feels about his medication, and just as important, Joey's father's reaction to it. All too often our boys are told to be men by men that don't know what that means themselves.
I liked Joey's mother. She didn't want to let go, but did, yet was wise enough to be there for her son when needed. And of course the dog is wonderful. The episode with the dog and the glove compartment was very funny. All of this accompanied by real life thoughts, emotions and dialogue.
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Summary: I Love Joey Pigza!
Review: I love Joey Pigza! Joey is such an erratic, yet heartwarming, character that really has you on his side for the entire book. As Joey says himself, he's always had a certain way about him that gets people on his side. As a teacher of both general education and special education students, I have at least one student with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, just like Joey, every year. Never before have I felt so in touch with those students or empathize with their symptoms than I did while reading about Joey. Joey states plainly that he doesn't have many friends because most of the kids tease him. Joey also talks about his experiences in school and how about half the class wants him to get better and behave, and the other half eggs him on, so that he'll stop the teacher's lesson. This was a revelation for me. I had never made the connection that other students would encourage disruptive behaviors in class for less than pure motives and then turn around and ridicule these behaviors outside of school for being "weird". But it certainly fits the characteristics of the typical social interactions with such students. Joey's mom is such a patient and loving mother who just can't take Joey's antics and trouble that he gets into. Being a single mom, doesn't make matters better and when Joey is going to spend the summer with his loony dad and grandmother, things just get worse. Joey's dad is a HUGE disappointment throughout the book as he is given this momentous "second chance" with the son he left behind to begin a new life. He yells at Joey while he's playing baseball, he drinks in excess, and is very irresponsible with the role of parenting Joey. He cared more about Joey brushing his teeth than other essential needs for his son. Joey wants so desperately to have a father and son relationship with his dad or even just to hold a "back and forth" conversation. His dad fails him in so many ways you want to reach through the pages and shake the grown man silly. Other people in the book accept Joey for who he is, such as his grandmother, even though she has always had a problem with his hyperness. Leezy, his dad's girlfriend also takes a liking to Joey right off the bat. Joey's dog, Pablo, takes some abuse when Joey gets a little too excited or forgetful, but his love for Joey is apparent. In the end, Joey's mom comes to his rescue and Joey is whisked away from his dad. I was regretful that Joey couldn't make a dad want to change his ways and that Joey had to leave with many more failures. I look forward to reading more about Joey and hopefully good things start to happen to a well deserved boy.
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