I Am Not Joey Pigza

By: Jack Gantos

Narrated by: Jack Gantos

“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?”©2007 Jack Gantos; (P)2007 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group.

One of my favorite books ever!

I don’t know why, but this book just speaks to me in so many ways, it’s exiting, it’s sad, it’s funny. n9 matter what I know the ever6 time I flip the page a new adventure will appear.

Me and him

If anyone here has ADHD I can relate to home so so much on every story but just not for this one because my mom isn’t a gold digger also because my parents give free dome and I have legally changed twice I LOVE you all of jack Gantos books and naration please share all books with your friends I did so I know you can to please share this book

Great for family listening, especially w ADHD kids

My boys (10, 7, 4) all like listening to the Joey Pigza books during our school commute. I think it is because they can relate, especially the older two. The stories are funny and have excellent life lessons too. Very entertaining, even for adults.

A little sad

Without giving too much away, it was a little disappointing that Joey wasn’t Joey from all of the previous stories anymore. The story is still greatly written with same great narration.

One of the best ones in the series

Bravo .
Mui magnifico.
Making you few comfortable in your own skin.
You are who you are