What Would Joey Do?

"Do my parents seem unusual to you?" When his dad roars into town, the sparks fly between Joey Pigza's long-separated parents. His ailing grandmother is certain that all the feuding (and flirting) will unleash a series of terrible events on the Pigza household. Fading fast, she wants Joey to find a life outside the famly, proving he will be all right once she is gone. "You know, Joey," Gandma said, "you gotta make some friends." "I have Pablo," I said. "Pablo is a dog," she replied. To put his grandmother at ease, Joey tries to make a friend of Olivia Lapp--his blind, bratty homeschooling partener--who only gets meaner the more Joey tries to please her. But Joey's not the type to give up on anyone in his life, even as his grandmother's predictions of Pigza family disaster come true. "I want to help everyone be nice. That's all I want to do. Just help. That's my whole thing now. I'm Mr. Helpful." In this final book of the Joey Pigza trilogy, Jack Gantos's acclaimed hero is attempting a breathtaking balancing act, as he tries to keep a handle on his wild, wired behavior without letting his hyperactively helpful ways spin him out of control all over again.

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Title of ebook: What Would Joey Do?
Reading level: ages 9 to 12
ISBN: 9780374702977
parent-ISBN: 9780374399863
Publisher: FSG Books for Young Readers
Published: 10-2002
Released online for download: 10-21-2002
Author of eBook: Gantos, Jack

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What Would Joey Do?

Chapter One

SPARKS

About three weeks ago Dad suddenly showed up in town and started buzzing us on his motorcycle at all hours of the day and night. At first I was afraid because I thought he had come to get me, but I was wrong. He was much more interested in Mom. I lost track of how many times he roared down our street and ran the corner traffic light past Quips Pub, where Mom lounged in the leather window seat sipping a mixed drink with her new boyfriend while making plans for her future. Dad must have spotted her there during one of his rounds. He didn't say anything, but he'd look at her in the window like she was something he wanted. Then, he'd blast off. If it was dark out, I could look through my back bedroom window and between the lines of damp laundry catch his single jittery headlight brightly striking the white marble tombstones lined up like crooked teeth behind our yard as he cut through St. Mary's Cemetery and raced out and around the neighborhood making a crazy eight before he looped back down Plum Street and past our house again. He must have been watching her closely because some ... read full excerpt from: What Would Joey Do? ebook

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