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229 pp.
| Farrar |
October, 2002 |
TradeISBN 0-374-39986-7$$16.00
(2)
4-6
In this final book about Joey Pigza, his mom has sent him to be homeschooled with a mean blind girl (think Rotten Ralph with a white cane) and her super-religious mother; his dad is tearing around, jealous of Joey's mom's new boyfriend; and Grandma is back, camped out on the couch behind a plastic shower curtain. Once again, Joey is a distinctive antihero who makes an immensely entertaining, remarkably lucid narrator.