Something for Joey

Media:	Paperback
Author:	Richard E. Peck
Publisher:	Laurel Leaf
Release date:	01 March, 1983
Our price:	$5.50

Something for Joey

Average rating: Stars

Awesome, Awesome, Awesome

I first read this book my junior year of high school and the story has stayed with me for 12 yrs now. This is such an inspirational story about a young boy suffering from leukemia and his older brother who plays college football. The older brother finds a way to make his brother's life a little brighter, by making touchdowns. I laughed, I cried throughout this book. It's wonderfully written and emphasizes the bond between the brothers and the entire family. I think this should be required reading for all high school students.

Something for Joey - Richard E. Peck

My #1 Book of All Time!

This book put me into reading. I can't understand how Peck could write such a good story without me knowing. I didn't eve know he had written this book and i think this book should recieve great awards for the effort put into the book and the final result. It was obvious that Richard Peck put something specail into this book that no other book has. I have seen, through this book the ingredients of a spectacular book. The vivid language has made the feelings of John and his brother Joey, a subject of Leukemia, combine together to make what i think is the world's greatest book.
John, a very good but not publisised football player for the Nittany Lions, has what seems to be the closest relationship with his brother, Joey. Joey has an extreme case of Leukemia where his white blood cells and his bone marrow are not strong enough and are too scarce to fight off many mild diseases such as the Chicken Pox. But despite the differences between them in age, about 10 years, John accomplishes everything for his younger brother. An example of this extreme brotherly connection is when John scores 4 touchdowns, something he had never accomplished before, just because it was Joey's birthday. Joey's life is very difficult, being in unbearable pain at times and having to see his doctors very often, but what seems to be the only thing that keeps Joey alive is the great ecstasy that goes through his mind when John scores touchdowns. When John wins the Heisman Trophy, the most priced possesion of great football players, he dedicates it to Joey, which is by far the best part of the book.

Richard E. Peck - Something for Joey

The McJerrys

Leukemia can kill you, but it didn't kill the love between Joey and John. The touchdown in this book is when a 12-year-old boy helps his older brother win the highest trophy in college football, the Heisman Trophy. On top of brotherly love, this book has amazing detail such as, "But Joey had already bolted off, his eyes on his brother, who was drifting back to cover a pass receiver angling downfield into his zone." Something for Joey was something for us, too.

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