Joey Pigza Loses Control (Joey Pigza Books (Paperback))

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Summary: Joey Pigza Loses Control
Review: Derek
The main character is Joey Pigza. Joey is on his way to spend his summer vacation with his dad that he hasn't seen in years. When Joey gets stressed out, he has patches that make him calm down. His dad discovers that Joey likes baseball and takes him to practice for his dad's team. His dad comes home from work one day and saw Joey throwing some rocks and asks him if he will pitch on his team. Then his dad convinces him to stop wearing his patch. After the first game, Joey meets his dad's girlfriend Leezy.
Joey's team was in the championship. It was finally the big day and Joey was a little jumpy without his patch. The game started and it was going good. It was 2 to1 in the 3rd inning and Joey's team was winning. Joey was up and he got hit in the head. After they were up Joey started hitting people and started losing control. His dad kept yelling at him and Joey ran to the outfield and hopped over the fence. Joey called his mom and asked her to come and pick him up. I recommend this book to kids my age or kids who like baseball. If I had to rate this book 1 to 5 I would give it a 5.
Jack Gantos wrote Joey Pigza, he was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. In the first grade Jack was in the Bluebird reading group, which he found out was for slow readers. His favorite game at that time was pretending that his clothes were on fire and rolling down a hill to save himself. When he was seven, his family moved to Barbados. He went to a British school. Then, he moved to South Florida. He didn't like his classmates there so he spent most of his time reading. In sixth grade jack got a diary and started writing. He decided to be a writer in high school, but didn't publish his first book until college, in 1976. This was the beginning of Jack's career as a professional writer.

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Summary: Calling All Kids!
Review: I have to do a book report for something that had to do with ADHD and Joey Pigza was the perfect book for me! I am 14 years old and having ADD and psychological problems myself I could really relate to this book! Joey is a 9 or 10 year old boy who gets very bored with his mom because she is always working. So, for the summer, Joey's mom sends him to his fathers house where Joey meets an older and bigger version of himself! Joey's father and grandmother love him very much and they both want him to spend alot of time with themselves. The first day Joey is with his dad they go to Storybook Land where grandma plays golf and Joey and Dad play in the park where his Fathers life changed forever. Joey's father finds out that Joey has a very good throwing arm he makes him the pitcher of his baseball team. His team is making it to the playoffs when Joey's Father flushes his medicine down the toilet. Joey knows that something bad is going to happen so during the first part of the baseball game joey runs off of the pitching mound and runs to the closest place where there is a payphone... This just happens to be where Joey's step-mom works and she finds him there calling his mom and.... Well you will have to read the book to find out if Joey's mom comes to pick him up or not!

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Summary: Hilarious, amazing, wonderful...
Review: I will not repeat everything else that has been said about this book. I will just share a true story about listening to Jack Gantos read this book on the audio cassette version. We were listening to the book in the car. After the chapter where Joey first sees his dad coach a Little League baseball team, my 11 year old daughter stopped the tape and wiping tears of laughter from her eyes, stabbed the rewind button and said, "I HAVE to hear that part again!"

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Summary: Hilarious, amazing, wonderful...
Review: I will not repeat everything else that has been said about this book. I will just share a true story about listening to Jack Gantos read this book on the audio cassette version. We were listening to the book in the car. After the chapter where Joey first sees his dad coach a Little League baseball team, my 11 year old daughter stopped the tape and wiping tears of laughter from her eyes, stabbed the rewind button and said, "I HAVE to hear that part again!"

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Summary: Joey Pigza Loses Control
Review: Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos is a funny book. Joey has suffers from ADD. Over the summer he spends six weeks in pittsburgh with his father who is recovering from being an alcoholic. This story pertains to many lives and is very realistic. Joey is just like any typical boy with divorced parents. He states things like "I cant help you get back together with mom if you drink." As while reading this book questions are asked like how will Joey recover from his illness, and what will happen in the summer with his dad. Which most people would be thinking a dad who is an alcoholic has a child with ADD and you wonder how his dad is going to take care of Joey. Many of the things in the story that Joey does makes you laugh, especially when joey starts shaving himself, all over his body. This book is a good attention getter for the reader because when things are funny it makes you want to read on. And many of the readers who read this book can relate to the characters beacuse there are many divorced parents who live far away, there is also some divorced parents are alcoholics becuase there upset, therefore people can relate in many ways.

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Summary: Joey Pigza Loses Control
Review: Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos is an excellent book for children and adults to read about a young boy living with attention deficit hyper activity (ADHD) and how the world appears to him once he is off the medication. I love the believable characters and settings through the entire book and other literary merits. The story takes place in Pittsburgh, PA, where Joey is going to meet his father for the first time. Pittsburgh is an actual place so children are able to find on a map where Joey is going. Joey also has a Chihuahua named Pablo who is a very vocal dog. Again this is very believable because Chihuahuas are very yappy. Other believable characters in the book are Joey's dad, who is "just like him but bigger. He had long arms and pointy elbows..." Also, Joey's grandmother, who has emphysema, is also very believable when Joey describes her breathing machine and how she talks in a scratchy voice. Other settings in the book that are believable are Storybook Land Fun Park, with its giant wood cutouts of fairy tale characters and the baseball fields, where every child can relate.
What else set this book apart was the figurative language it used. On page 33 Joey states how is dad was right and that "he did not turn into a busted old humpty". This is figurative because there is no way that a grown man could turn into a humpty dumpty. Another example of figurative language is on page 192 where Liza states, "You gotta fight fire with fire". You are not literally fighting with fire but that you have to be just as strong and just as determined as the other guy.
Three other literary merits that I came across that made this book high in literary merit and taste are dialogue provides insight into characters, which can be found on page 56, where Joey shoves a peanut up his nose. This line in the chapter shows you the impulsity of Joey. Mood and tome facilitate suspension of disbelief is another literacy element that made the book so good and an example of that is when grandma is holding Pablo at Joey's last baseball game even though she said that she could not stand that dog through out the book. The last literacy element that helped out the book was the pacing and style being appropriate to content. You could feel yourself reading faster when it came to Joey in the beginning and the end of the book when he was not on his medication.
To whom would this book appeal? Both children and young adults would enjoy reading this book to themselves or out loud with others. It will relate to children on a variety of levels such as ADHD,if the child knows someone or has it themselves, separation of parents because in today's society separation of parents is a common thing now. The book also relates to children if they have ever played baseball or went to a game even if they had ever went to the mall or shopping. The child lastly can relate to the book if they know where Pittsburgh is or have ever been there or live there.
I would use Joey Pigza loses Control in a variety of ways in my classroom. I could use the book during disability awareness month and talk about ADHD. I could also use it when I am teaching about Pittsburgh in social studies or geography. The book can be integrated in other ways such as arts and humanities, and economics. I suggest to anyone to go out and read Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos. You will not regret it.

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Summary: Joey Pigza Goes Bonkers!
Review: Joey Pigza Loses Control is a very up beat and exciting book. After Joey get's bored with his mom at the house they decide to send him off to his dad's house in Pittsburgh. Joey's dad is an recovering alchaholic that isn't doing very well. He has a girlfriend named Leezy, she takes care of him. Joey has a condition called ADD. So Joey is always hyper. But to help not go bonkers he has patches that have some meds on them. Anyway, when Joey is at his dad's house in Pittsburgh, Carter, the dad, decides that he and Joey don't need any of their meds, that they should start being realy men. After Carter dumped the patches down the toitlet at like midnight, Joey starts going hay wire and he loses control of his body. He can't focus, and that's not good since he's a pitcher for his father's baseball team. He is the best pitcher there. At one if his big baseball games he decides that he needs all these things, his dog, Pablo, his tape player, all these really unusual things. But he didn't get all of the things so he decides to stop throwing good, in other words he throughs one in the dirt. One of the good things about this book is that there is alway's something new to think about. Joey ends up running away at a baseball game and then hiding in an office until his mom comes to rescue him from his crazy dad. In the book it said that Carter is like a grown up version of Joey, and beleive me, it is very true. Joey Pigza is a very good book, the great discriptive writing by Jack Gantos makes you keep on wanting to read. I'm not very into reading but i still wanted to finish the book, and i'm glad i did.

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Summary: Online book review for KU
Review: The book Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos is a good book for children and adults to read. This story is about a boy, named Joey who has Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). His parents are divorced and he doesn't know his father so he convinces his mother to allow him to spend time with him. This book has an interesting point of view. Joey tells the story from his view, and how he deals with ADD. The story describes his life and specific events and it shows other children what ADD is like. Joey also decides in the beginning of the story that he wants to meet his father, and he's interested in having him around. However, toward the end of the story, Joey realizes that all he really needed was what he already had, his mother. He understands how important that is. The dialogue in the story provides insight into Joeys character. The author, for example, shows Joey depends on his medicine in stating "I didn't have time for anything that lasted longer than the snap of my fingers. But after I got my good meds, which were in a patch I stuck on my body every day, I started to settle down and think (9-10). " We realize it's important for him to have the medication and that he also does crazy things like "I'd spin around a few times then screech to a sudden stop and wing a dart at the closest bull's-eye. " "And one time I kept spinning until everything was blurry like you tape a bottles bottom over your eyes and when I stopped I threw a dart at the first animal I saw and heard Pablo yelp and when I could get my balance and focus my eyes I found him quivering in a corner of the couch with a dart through his ear (12-13). " This describes his personality. The characters and setting in this book are unique and believable. Joey's character is believable because there are children that can read this story and relate to him. There are children who live with separate or divorced parents and visit the other parent during summer vacation or holidays. Children with ADD can also relate to Joey and understand what he goes through and his experiences throughout the story. The setting in the book is at Joey's house, and with his family in various common places. There are a couple major questions you ask when reading this story. For example, what will Joey think of his dad? Has his dad stopped drinking and smoking? And what will happen to Joey if or when he stops taking his medication? The pace and style of the book flows well and it is hard to put the book down because you want to find the answers to your questions. The content is appropriate for children in sixth grade or higher and this would be a good book for your library collection in the classroom.

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Summary: can i get back to you on that?
Review: This book is a superb hilarious book. It is facinating, detailed and really well written. It is also very eye- catching and also relates to baseball. Read this book and it will make your life better.

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Summary: Joey Pigza Loses Control
Review: This book is PERFECT for ages 12 and under. My son absolutely loves this book and wanted to read the next book, What Would Joey Do? He can't wait to start it!