I Am Not Joey Pigza
Joey Pigza Series, Book 4
جویی پیگزا سری, کتاب ۴
گزارش تخلف
فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2007
Lexile Score
870
Reading Level
4-5
ATOS
5.3
Interest Level
4-8(MG)
نویسنده
Jack Gantosشابک
9780739356760
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- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
Joey has come a long way to find himself, but now his dad is back and wants him to become someone totally different. Does he want to? Has Dad really changed? Can Joey forgive him? Gantos knows his character and his problems well enough to read with a jerky rhythm and choppy inflection, reminding us that Joey has to work hard to keep his world, and his brain, under control. Gantos also brings out the sweet, sensitive, loving side of Joey, whose world is starting to fall apart once again. We hear the panic building in his increasingly loud voice--as we know it's building in his head--as he tries to calm and take care of himself because the adults in his life aren't doing their jobs. W.L.S. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
Starred review from July 23, 2007
In suitably off-kilter fashion, this fourth installment in what had been previously called a trilogy finds the hyperactive hero reunited with Carter Pigza, his “no-good squinty-eyed bad dad.” Having won a small fortune in the lottery, Carter’s back to reclaim his role as family man. The hilarious “rewedding” vows—his “I forgive you for all the times you called me a lifelong loser” begets wife Fran’s “I forgive you for trying to run me over with your motorcycle”—establish the theme for this episode in Joey’s chaotic childhood: How do you forgive people for being who they are? Especially when who they are is an incredibly lousy parent? Carter, like Joey, is not a man of small gestures; in wiping the slate clean, he changes their names to Charles, Maria and Freddy Heinz, and moves the family to the country where he has bought a roadside diner to renovate and open as The Beehive. Naturally, things do not go according to plan. In one scene, Joey/Freddy plays in traffic in a bee costume to publicize the new restaurant and winds up in police custody. As in the other Joey Pigza books, the plot doesn’t move so much as careen from one over-the-top event to the next, the achievement being that every one of them feels entirely plausible. Gantos exercises complete command of his subject—so thoroughly inside the dented head of his character that readers easily suspend disbelief. Another wild ride–over serious terrain. Ages 10-up.
March 1, 2008
Gr 5-7-In this latest installment (Farrar, Strauss 2007) in the series by Jack Gantos, Joey Pigzas life is turned upside down when his father comes back into the picture claiming to be a changed man, with a new nameCharles Heinz. Joeys dad recently won the lottery and is trying to use this new good karma to convince Joey and his mom to join him and become the Heinz family. With a series of humorous and poignant moments, Joey struggles with his new identity as Freddy Heinz, while trying to forgive his father for his past. Gantos treats listeners to a spot-on performance of Joeys scattered and adventurous life. The charming and, at times, whining tones of Gantos vocal patterns are perfect for the spunky Joey, while at the same time clearly conveying the more adult voices in Joeys world. The pacing of the audio is consistently swift, keeping up with Joeys antics and his dads sometimes maniacal scheming to gain more good karma, while frantically trying to select more winning lottery numbers rather than actually having to work. This enjoyable audiobook sill be a treat for school and public libraries."Stephanie A. Squicciarini, Fairport Public Library, NY"
Copyright 2008 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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