I Am Not Joey Pigza
Joey Pigza: Book #4
- By: Jack Gantos
- Narrated by: Jack Gantos
- Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Description
“I’m a brand-new man with a brand-new plan.”
Joey Pigza is knocked for a loop when his good-for-nothing dad shows up on his doorstep as a recycled person. After a lucky lotto win, Carter Pigza truly believes he’s somebody else. He’s even renamed himself Charles Heinz–and he insists that Joey and his mother join his happy Heinz family plan.
“My head felt like it was full of bees, and they were busy in ways that were bad for me.”
Joey has little choice but to embrace a head-spinning series of changes, which include having to leave school to help out at the beat-up roadside diner his dad has purchased. But Joey is afraid that in going with the flow he will go over the falls and end up in a place far away from who he really is.
In this seriously comic new novel, Jack Gantos pushes his acclaimed hero into entirely new territory, where he wrestles with issues of identity and forgiveness, and teaches himself how to triple-flip a turkey burger while shouting out his new favorite phrase . . .
“Do you want fries with that?”
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Joey Pigza Series

I Am Not Joey Pigza
By: Jack Gantos
Narrated by: Jack Gantos
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
“I’m a brand-new man with a brand-new plan.”
Joey Pigza is knocked for a loop when his good-for-nothing dad shows up on his doorstep as a recycled person. After a lucky lotto win, Carter Pigza truly believes he’s somebody else. He’s even renamed himself Charles Heinz–and he insists that Joey and his mother join his happy Heinz family plan.
“My... Read more »

The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza
By: Jack Gantos
Narrated by: Jack Gantos
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The fifth and final book in the groundbreaking Joey Pigza series brings the beloved chronicle of this wired, wacky, and wonderful boy to a crescendo of chaos and craziness, as everything goes topsy-turvy for Joey just as he starts to get his feet on the ground. With his dad MIA in the wake of appearance-altering plastic surgery, Joey must... Read more »
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Joey Pigza Loses Control
By: Jack Gantos
Narrated by: Jack Gantos
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Everything seems to be coming together for Joey Pigza. His new meds are making his ADD more manageable, and he finally feel in control. But will he renewed relationship with his recovering-alcoholic father make him lose it all?
"Struggling to please everyone even as he sees himself hurtling toward disaster, Joey emerges as a sympathetic hero,... Read more »