A Place for Joey

by Carol Flynn Harris

Book Overview

Since coming from Italy as a young child, the North End of Boston has been Joey Calabro's home. He loves the sights and sounds and smells of the North End, from the horse-drawn wagons rumbling over... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563971089
• ISBN13: 9781563971082
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Make "A Place for Joey" on your bookshelf!

I've given this book as a gift to many nieces, nephews, and young friends - and they have all loved it! Joey is a character children can "trust" because, like them, he's not perfect. By turns loving, uncertain, disrespectful, heroic, and so on, Joey grows - but not without the growing pains young readers themselves experience. In addition, author Carol Harris neatly disguises lessons about history and tolerance in this novel, so young readers never feel that they are being "preached to." I especially admire Harris' keen ability to understand and relate the nuances of evolving relationships between characters. Make "A Place for Joey" on your bookshelf because it is a tale of Boston, of family, of immigrant experience, and of a local disaster - but mostly because it is a terrific read.

A Place for Joey - a great read

This is a story about immigrants in America told from a kid's point of view. It has great characters and exciting action built around one of the most bizarre disasters in American history: the great Boston molasses flood of 1919!