The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza

Written by Jack Gantos

Part of the Joey Pigza series

A boy juggles family chaos and a mysterious key to his missing father's secrets.

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176 pages· 970L

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Bookroo's summary

Joey's world spirals as he quits school to care for his baby brother while his mom battles postpartum blues. With his dad missing after drastic surgery, Joey stumbles upon a key that might reveal his father's location. Can he solve the mystery and reunite his fractured family, or will the truth tear him apart?

From the publisher

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 give up school to look after his new baby brother and fill in for his mom, who hospitalizes herself to deal with a bad case of postpartum blues. As his challenges mount, Joey discovers a key that could unlock the secrets to his father’s whereabouts, a mystery that must be solved before Joey can even hope that his broken family might somehow come back together–if only it doesn’t pull him apart first. This title has Common Core connections.

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