Oy, Joy!

by Lucy Frank

Book Overview

Joy's just started high school and already her life is a mess. She can't seem to find a date who resembles a human being. Ever since her great-uncle Max moved into her family's tiny apartment, Joy has... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689843186
• ISBN13: 9780689843181
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Oy, Joy

The book that I am reading is called Oy, Joy and I really liked it. This book is by Lucy Frank, a writer whom I have never heard of until this book, but a very good and talented writer. This book is definitely a book that all teens should read. It talks about Joy's life and all the troubles she has been going through. Her friend Maple makes her take a dumb Match-Quiz to find the perfect boy for Joy. Now that her eighty-year-old great-uncle named Uncle Max moves in, her life starts getting annoying and she just wants to run away. In the end, Uncle Max was really doing the right thing for her and teaching her to get out of her comfort zone and to try some new things.I liked this book because I just learned about stress, and even though no one thought of reading as a way to combat stress, this book helped me. It can really refer to me because she is a teenager and just trying to organize her life. Her Uncle Max seems like he's messing things up for her, but everything turns out better on the other side. My parents seem like the Uncle Max that Joy has to deal with, but I will always remember that they are doing the right things for me. She also has a little brother and has to share a room with him when Uncle Max moves in. ¡°Why did Nathan's life seem so much simpler? Give him some little thing to fiddle-diddle with and he was happy.¡± As you can see, Joy has some stress, but this book taught me that all teenagers have stress, not just me. Another reason I liked this book was because of the Match-Quiz. It was two dollars at Joy's school to help with the dances and everything, while it gave you the names of guys or girls who matches you the most. Joy thought it was stupid, but ended up going along with it, and met the perfect guy for her. It taught her and also me that if you keep going and trying things, you'll always get somewhere. ¡°It wasn't that I didn't want to meet a boy. I thought about it every time I saw a couple who really liked each other.¡± Joy has a lot of problems with guys, just like I do. This book also taught me to be confident in myself and take action.My favorite part of the book was when Joy got to remodel her half of the room in Nathan's room. Since Uncle Max was moving in, she had to move into her brother¡¯s room. My mom would have told me to just move my room, but Joy's mom bought her lots of things to remodel with. Joy even got space in a closet to put her desk and computer in, which I think is very cool. ¡°¡±We'll get you some new curtains, too, and a new bedspread, maybe a new rug. Come on. Let's measure everything. We'll get some bookcases at one of those unpainted furniture places on Broadway and use them as a divider. I think we can make this work.¡±¡± I really liked this book because whenever I had to stop reading, I couldn't wait until I could read some more until the end of the book.

"Oy, Joy" is a great book!

"Oy, Joy!" is one of the funniest and best books I've read! It takes you into the mind of a teenage girl who, unfortunately, is having a little trouble getting a boyfriend. Her great-uncle Max moves in after being in the hospital and is determined to get Joy a date. But his taste is, well, a little different than Joy's. She enters in the matchmaking program her school is holding and, after MANY boys, she finally finds the one. Read the book, you'll like it!

Excellent

Oy, Joy! is a clearly written book with relevant topics, like self esteem, fitting in, and finding a boyfriend. In the book, Joy and her best friend Maple use a match quiz to find a boyfriend among the many students in their large new school. Maple finds a match quickly, but soon begins to change. The rest of the book details how Joy deals with a grumpy, would-be matchmaker great-uncle, and Maple's new self. Altogether, it's well written and one of the best new books I've read recently.

Joyful indeed!

A cheerful book with a lot of potty and interesting characters. Uncle Max is everybody's uncle who takes a perhaps not so welcome interest in a typical high school student's life. The twists and turns of matchmaking make for a lively book with a happy ending.

PURE JOY

A charming family drama written with a quirky and very pleasing sense of humor. Dramatis personae: Uncle Max, a would-be matchmaker, and Joy, a new high school freshman. Teenage readers will guess sooner than most the answers to these 'romantic puzzles'. And readers over a wide age range will enjoy this attractively written and produced book.