Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos 154 pp.
This is one of the books my Treehouse Book Club is reading this year. Joey Pigza is a kid with serious ADHD. The problem is no one has really treated the problem properly. He gets meds but they only work some of the time. The former teacher in me cringed at the mishandling of this child's problem at the hands of the school personnel. Joey's own descriptions of how he feels inside when he's "wired" are very convincing. He ends up being sent to a "Special Ed. School" after accidentally injuring a classmate. Eventually he hooks up with a sympathetic doctor and gets the medication he needs. This is the first of a series of books about Joey Pigza.
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