Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key: (National Book Award Finalist)

My primary school teacher Mrs. Ownby read this book to all of 20 of us, 17 years ago. This book always resonated with me. It's about a kid with severe ADHD, who's absent mother of 8 years comes back. He was being taken care of by his grandma. This first book in the series is all about Joey getting the help he needs and learning to control his impulses. He handles his anger from his mother choosing his father over him. His mother has to handle the guilt of drinking while she was pregnant with him. She learns to be a mother and faces similar challenges other mother's and father's face, with mentally handicap or ADHD children. Anyone with a little one with ADHD, should READ THIS BOOK. It's accurate on ADHD, the struggles children face in primary, lower secondary and secondary school face.

This is a great book! It was really heart filled story it makes me think about in real life there's people that struggle just like that but it was a good one !

This book was laugh out loud funny! Many times, I felt bad for Joey because he truly wanted to do the right thing, but it went all wrong. As a teacher, it was good for me to read about a boy who struggles to pay attention. It helps me understand where some of my students may be coming from.