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Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (2000, Reinforced Hardcover) 
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (2000, Reinforced Hardcover)

 
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (2000, Reinforced Hardcover)

Author: Jack Gantos
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2000-08-01
Series: Newbery Honor Book
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0374399891
ISBN-13: 9780374399894
Product ID: EPID1846588
Description: Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
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Synopsis
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.

This sequel to JOEY PIGZA SWALLOWED THE KEY begins with a new and improved Joey. Once an extremely hyperactive child, lovable, good-hearted Joey has new medication and can exercise more self-control. He feels so good that he convinces his mother that he's ready to spend the summer with his estranged father, Carter. His father is also hyperactive--and a recovering alcoholic--and he wants Joey to forget his medication and kick his hyperactivity using nothing but will power. Joey must decide which he'd rather do: stand up to his father and stick with his meds, or revert to the problem child he used to be. Named a year 2000 Notable Books by the New York Times and one of the Best Children's Books 2000 by Publishers Weekly. A 2001 Newbery Honor Book.

Details
Publication Date:2000-08-01
Series:Newbery Honor Book

Size
Length:195 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:12.8 oz

Publisher's Note
When Joey Pigza meets his dad, Carter, for the first time in years, he meets a grownup version of his old hyperactive self -- the way he was before his stint in special ed, the way he was before he got his new meds.
" He was wired, No doubt about it . . . , Now I knew what Mom meant when she said he was like me, only bigger."
During their summer visit together, Carter is eager to make up to his son for past wrongs. He wants to teach Joey how to be a winner. He wants to show Joey how to take control of his own life. And Joey is willing to do whatever his dad says, even though -- in this high-energy sequel to the acclaimed Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key -- he fears it will do him more harm than good.
"All I could imagine was the worst part of me getting or a train a long ways off. That old Joey was coming to get me and I couldn't do anything about it . . . There was nothing to do but wait, and worry."

Industry Reviews
"[Joey is a] tough and triumphant kid with an absorbing story."
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (09/20/2000)

"A perceptive portrait of a memorable boy."
Washington Post Book World - Kathleen Odean (05/10/2001)

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