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Joey Pigza loses control

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.

Main Author: Gantos, Jack.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
Subjects:
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder > Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and sons > Juvenile fiction.
Baseball > Juvenile fiction.
Alcoholism > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Sequel to: Joey Pigza swallowed the key.
Physical Description: 195 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0374399891 : HRD
Author Notes: Jack Gantos was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania on July 2, 1951. He received a BFA and a MA from Emerson College. While in college, he and an illustrator friend, Nicole Rubel, began working on picture books. After a series of rejections, they published their first book, Rotten Ralph, in 1976. His other books include Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, a National Book Award Finalist, Joey Pigza Loses Control, a Newbery Honor book, and Dead End in Norvelt, which won the 2012 Newbery Medal. His memoir, Hole in My Life, won the Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert Honors. Jack's follow-up to Hole in My Life is The Trouble in Me He also teaches courses in children's book writing and children's literature. He dev.eloped the master's degree program in children's book writing at Emerson College and the Vermont College M.F.A. program for children's book writers.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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