Oy, Joy!

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Summary: Good read for a young adult.
Review: "Oh, Joy!" is a whimsical novel told through the eyes of Joy, the protagonist of this third novel by Lucy Frank. Joy is a fourteen year old entering high school. The freshman would like to find a boyfriend. She finds it difficult to focus on the school's Match Quiz because she has to give up her room to her great-uncle Max who has moved into her family's cramped New York City apartment with his old, super terrier after he had a stroke. Now Joy and her younger brother Nathan have to share his room along with his pet mice.
This all adds to the tensions as one might imagine. Joy has a problem with her life long girlfriend, Maple, when she finds her love interest in Wade. Enter Max, Joy's age, who become close. As Uncle Max said, "A boy named Max couldn't be bad."
The story is a quick read. It is probably suited best for teens who can relate to the young characters in the story.

Rating:
Summary: Good read for a young adult.
Review: "Oh, Joy!" is a whimsical novel told through the eyes of Joy, the protagonist of this third novel by Lucy Frank. Joy is a fourteen year old entering high school. The freshman would like to find a boyfriend. She finds it difficult to focus on the school's Match Quiz because she has to give up her room to her great-uncle Max who has moved into her family's cramped New York City apartment with his old, super terrier after he had a stroke. Now Joy and her younger brother Nathan have to share his room along with his pet mice.
This all adds to the tensions as one might imagine. Joy has a problem with her life long girlfriend, Maple, when she finds her love interest in Wade. Enter Max, Joy's age, who become close. As Uncle Max said, "A boy named Max couldn't be bad."
The story is a quick read. It is probably suited best for teens who can relate to the young characters in the story.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Review: "Oy, Joy" was an excellent book. I'm thirteen so I could really understand Joy and her problems/lovelife. I couldn't put this book down, and I read it for four hours straight! "Oy, Joy" is my new favorite book!!

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Summary: "Oy, Joy" is a great book!
Review: "Oy, Joy!" is one of the funniest and best books I've read! It takes you into the mind of a teenage girl who, unfortunately, is having a little trouble getting a boyfriend. Her great-uncle Max moves in after being in the hospital and is determined to get Joy a date. But his taste is, well, a little different than Joy's. She enters in the matchmaking program her school is holding and, after MANY boys, she finally finds the one. Read the book, you'll like it!

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Summary: PURE JOY
Review: A charming family drama written with a quirky and very pleasing sense of humor. Dramatis personae: Uncle Max, a would-be matchmaker, and Joy, a new high school freshman. Teenage readers will guess sooner than most the answers to these 'romantic puzzles'. And readers over a wide age range will enjoy this attractively written and produced book.

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Summary: Joyful indeed!
Review: A cheerful book with a lot of potty and interesting characters. Uncle Max is everybody's uncle who takes a perhaps not so welcome interest in a typical high school student's life. The twists and turns of matchmaking make for a lively book with a happy ending.

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Summary: Very special!
Review: Author Lucy Frank is a genius at characterization. I'm convinceed that I would recognize Joy's Uncle Max and Joy's friend Maple if I saw them on the street, they are that real. Ms. Frank captures people, warts and all, but her revelations are bathed in kindness and sympathy. Read this book! You'll love Joy and both Maxes and even Sarge, the dog, and even Kurt and Ludwig, the mice!

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Summary: not good
Review: i couldnt even finish this book once i was half way through. i felt like i didnt identify or like the characters and i never sunk into the plot. it is one of the few books that i really did not enjoy at all. NOT reccommended

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Summary: excellent!
Review: i loved this book! it had great description and the characters were well developed, you must read it

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Summary: Insightful, yet fun and interesting
Review: I thought that Oy Joy was a very fun book. I thought that it really displays a teenage life and really puts it into perspective. I thought that the book was very discriptive about certain things. I really like books that the main character expresses his or her own opinion and view. I also thought that the book was fun when Joy tryed to play matchmaker with her uncle Max and Rose Nussbaum. The climax of this book for me would have been Joy's relationship with Max. I thought that it really showed how much teenagers all need really good friends to talk to, not just their parents because friends may know exactly what they are going through. I think that I would recommend this book to you if you are going through a "teenage trial" or if you just like to read about other people. It was a very fun, light book.