TY - SER
KW - single parents
KW - ADHD
KW - elementary schools
AU - Jack Gantos
AB - Joey Pigza, who suffers from ADHD and is raised by his grandmother in Lancaster County, cannot sit still or pay attention.  After he injures a classmate, the school district sends Joey for medical testing at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, where his missing father is rumored to live.
BT - Joey Pigza series, 1/5
C1 - 1990s
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Oakland; Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (1926); Downtown; PPG Place
C4 - Children’s; Comedy
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Joey Pigza, who suffers from ADHD and is raised by his grandmother in Lancaster County, cannot sit still or pay attention.  After he injures a classmate, the school district sends Joey for medical testing at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, where his missing father is rumored to live.
PB - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
PP - New York
PY - 1998
RN - Jack Gantos (1951— ), born and raised in Norvelt, Westmoreland County, earned his BFA and MA at Emerson College. The author of many children's books, he is best known for his fictional character Rotten Ralph and Joey Pigza. Gantos lives in Boston.
EP - 154 p.
T2 - Joey Pigza series, 1/5
TI - Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
ER -