Joey Pigza books
Author
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Formats
Description
To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription medications wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
195 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 4
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joey's father returns, calling himself Charles Heinz and apologizing for his past bad behavior, and he swears that once Joey and his mother change their names and help him fix up the old diner he has bought, their lives will change for the better.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Everything goes topsy-turvy for Joey as he becomes the man of the house, looking after his new baby brother, taking care of his troubled mother, and seeking out his missing father"--