Oy, Joy!

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Summary: This is such a fun book
Review: I thought that this book was a light, funny book that would be good on summer days. It is really like a real teens life. I would definately reccommend this for anyone over the age of 10. Somehow this book would relate to your everyday life. The character development was wonderful, so you really got into the lives of the characters.

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Summary: This was GREAT!
Review: I thought that this book was really, really good. It explained a lot about the life of a teenage girl these days. The experiences that Joy goes through are a lot like the ones that teenage girls go through now. Joy has a situation that a lot of people have and go through day by day. I think that girls can really relate to this book and I would recommend it to anybody.

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Summary: Oy, Joy!
Review: Joy is an average fourteen-year-old girl who has an annoying eleven-year-old brother and a seventy-eight year-old uncle.
Yep, Uncle Max is coming to town! Joy is really upset to losing her room because of good old Uncle Max.
Now being the teenager that she is, will she blow her lid? Not to mention that she has to share her room with her...brother!
I love this book. It kind of portrays me sort of because my little sister is always around so I know how Joy feels about this.
Comparing it to "The Secret life of Amanda K. Woods", it would be very similar to it.

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Summary: Oy,Joy!
Review: Joy is an average kid,with a senile, date medeling uncle.And after taking a stupid matchmaking test things start crashing down.What's a girl to do with an annoying brother, senile uncle and a boy crazy best friend?
Oy,Joy! is a five star book with a satisfying, but not great ending.This book will draw you in to Joy's hectic life in a heart beat.The only down fall of this fantastic tale is how quickly the ending creeps up on you.

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Summary: Great! I love it!
Review: Oy Joy is a book about Joy and how her and her best friend Maple take a match making quiz. Life is all fine and dandy for Joy until her Uncle Max comes along and she is forced to take care of Uncle Max and pair up with her little brother in his room. Well if that's not bad enough, Uncle Max starts to interfere with Joy's love life. I thought this book was fairly entertaining, but it lacked excitement, thus why I only gave it three stars.

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Summary: Match maker, match maker find me a find!!
Review: Oy, Joy was a great book. It makes you want to keep turning pages. Joy is faced with real life situations. Oy, Joy is a book about a young, teenage, nice girl named Joy who takes a whole bunch of twists and turns in her life. Joy and her best friend Maple are closer than ever until "matchmaker" pulls them apart. "Matchmaker" was something done by her highschool that was supposed to match you up with the perfect someone. Joy and Maple fill out the "matchmaker" quiz hoping to find good results. But when Maple runs off with her new boyfriend, Joy is left with no match and no best friend. On top of that, Joy's helpless Uncle Max is home from the hospital and cannot live alone. This even forced Joy to have to babysit Uncle Max every day after school!! Uncle Max tries to set Joy up with boys from her match list, but always seems to get the wrong people. Until one day, Joy's luck rises and Max jumps into her life; a dream come true. Everything all of a sudden has a better side to it.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: Oy, Joy! is a clearly written book with relevant topics, like self esteem, fitting in, and finding a boyfriend. In the book, Joy and her best friend Maple use a match quiz to find a boyfriend among the many students in their large new school. Maple finds a match quickly, but soon begins to change. The rest of the book details how Joy deals with a grumpy, would-be matchmaker great-uncle, and Maple's new self. Altogether, it's well written and one of the best new books I've read recently.

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Summary: Oy, Joy!
Review: Oy, Joy! Reading this book, you will see just how a thirteen year old girl's life works. Joy, a normal girl who goes to a normal school in New York, has just the things any thirteen your old has...or wants---friends, talent, and a personal life. Joy lives in a world that seems to her complicated and detailed. With an annoying and obnoxious little brother, a best friend who is not allowed to do much because of her strict mother, an uncle who tries to go into other people's business, and many other interesting and unique people, life is like a roller coaster for her. Somehow, without losing friends or hope, she must find her way through a life full of challenges, danger, disappointment, and excitement. In my opinion, this book was good, having plenty of detail and a great plot. I'd recommend this book to anyone in between the age of ten years to teenagers, that is, if they're willing to drop everything and be sucked into the amazing story. Oy, Joy! I can't wait to read this book again.

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Summary: Oy, Joy
Review: The book that I am reading is called Oy, Joy and I really liked it. This book is by Lucy Frank, a writer whom I have never heard of until this book, but a very good and talented writer. This book is definitely a book that all teens should read. It talks about Joy's life and all the troubles she has been going through. Her friend Maple makes her take a dumb Match-Quiz to find the perfect boy for Joy. Now that her eighty-year-old great-uncle named Uncle Max moves in, her life starts getting annoying and she just wants to run away. In the end, Uncle Max was really doing the right thing for her and teaching her to get out of her comfort zone and to try some new things.

I liked this book because I just learned about stress, and even though no one thought of reading as a way to combat stress, this book helped me. It can really refer to me because she is a teenager and just trying to organize her life. Her Uncle Max seems like he's messing things up for her, but everything turns out better on the other side. My parents seem like the Uncle Max that Joy has to deal with, but I will always remember that they are doing the right things for me. She also has a little brother and has to share a room with him when Uncle Max moves in. ¡°Why did Nathan's life seem so much simpler? Give him some little thing to fiddle-diddle with and he was happy.¡± As you can see, Joy has some stress, but this book taught me that all teenagers have stress, not just me.

Another reason I liked this book was because of the Match-Quiz. It was two dollars at Joy's school to help with the dances and everything, while it gave you the names of guys or girls who matches you the most. Joy thought it was stupid, but ended up going along with it, and met the perfect guy for her. It taught her and also me that if you keep going and trying things, you'll always get somewhere. ¡°It wasn't that I didn't want to meet a boy. I thought about it every time I saw a couple who really liked each other.¡± Joy has a lot of problems with guys, just like I do. This book also taught me to be confident in myself and take action.

My favorite part of the book was when Joy got to remodel her half of the room in Nathan's room. Since Uncle Max was moving in, she had to move into her brother¡¯s room. My mom would have told me to just move my room, but Joy's mom bought her lots of things to remodel with. Joy even got space in a closet to put her desk and computer in, which I think is very cool. ¡°¡±We'll get you some new curtains, too, and a new bedspread, maybe a new rug. Come on. Let's measure everything. We'll get some bookcases at one of those unpainted furniture places on Broadway and use them as a divider. I think we can make this work.¡±¡± I really liked this book because whenever I had to stop reading, I couldn't wait until I could read some more until the end of the book.

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Summary: Oy Joy! book review
Review: This book is about your average girl who has a best friend but, needs a boyfriend. Joy and her best friend Maple take a match quiz. Maple quickly snags a guy and leaves Joy behind. What will Joy do now? Read to find out.