Oh+Joy

First of all I have read the fantastic book OY, JOY by Lucy frank. The book was okay it was kind of interesting with joy and all the drama going on in her life. The book didn’t really talk about maple it was all about joy excepted for when she got a boy friend. I think joy was jealous of maple so then they weren’t friends and when joy finally got a boy friend she was friend with her again. She is making a whole bunch of friends now that she has her boy friend max! seconed of all the theme of the book was that life is not perfect, no ones is and you have to hang with it. Another one is trying to not be afraid and to make new friends. I liked how Maple was still there for joy even though they weren’t friends any more that how they became friends again. In the middle of the book joys uncle ran away and they didn’t know were he went. My uncle ran away with his x-wife and his two kids at first we didn’t know were he went then we figured out when he came back. I think this book kind of relates to small steps by Lois Lowry. It relates to it because Armpit and the helpless girl in that book help each other out and so did Maple and Joy. Next the most exciting main character is Joy. Joy life was pretty dramatic in this book. She is trying to find a boy friend, her uncle moves in with them and she has to share a room with her brother, also her uncle runs away. I dint really like Maple because nothing really happened to her. My life is totally different then boy because I don’t have to live in an apartment and I don’t have to share a room with my brother. Maple relates to Manny’s sister. In the book Manny they are both not really involved. Last I would recommend this to other friends because it is an okay book and Joy’s life is pretty interesting. I would recommend this to Maria and Erin. This is an okay book. I gave it three stars.

by kate

Margot Period 4-5 10/31/08- 11/5/08 Oy, Joy.

I just got done reading the book called Oy, Joy by Lucy Frank. I liked the book in some parts but not all of them, some of the parts were boring and some parts were exciting! Also, in the book it got off topic a lot then went back on topic. An interesting thing that stood out to me was when Joy and Maple were taking a quiz to find their matches. If I were Joy or Maple I would find someone by asking him in person. I say this because if you take that test, some people might lie and make you think that they are right for you. In this book it is very easy to see what the problem is. When the match quiz was over they got their results and Maple called all of the people that was on her list. Once she found her match Maple and Joy separated very fast. Another problem is that he relative is stay at her house and she doesn’t have her room anymore. I disliked the fact that her uncle had to come there and take Joy’s life away because she has to work on her homework in the closet. My life is different from Joy’s because when a guest comes over. They sleep in guest room and they don’t take my life or social life away. Another place in the book where I can relate to is when her friend Maple decides to ditch Joy and join’s Wade’s band. That has happened to me a lot of times in my life but we were still friends. Joy is one of the main characters, and to describe her life would be very dramatic and depressive. Maple life is more like clam, lade back, not as much drama, and happy. Another one is Uncle Max; his life is like happy, caring, helpful, and difficult. I liked Maple the most because she doesn’t have a lot of drama in her life, and I hate drama. Also, I am a very lade back person or lazy kind of person and I’d love to be Maple the most. I get grounded a lot and so does Maple so I can relate to her a lot. I could relate to the part where Maple ditched Joy to go somewhere else with someone other then her. That has happened to me and I just asked if they wanted to go another time and they said sure. I would recommend this book because it is very interesting and is a one book and it summarizes what happens in the end instead of having to buy the next book. Another thing about this book that I would like to recommend it is that if u like drama, sad, surprising, Or curious parts in books then you should read this. I hope that who ever read this book thinks the same thing that I did about this book. Again this book is called Oy, Joy and the author is Lucy Frank. I hope that you read this book, it’s really good and you have to see what happens in her life everyday. If your life is very dramatic then you are just like her.

Kelly period4-5 11/5/08

== Oy Joy I just finished reading Oy Joy by Lucy Frank. I wouldn’t say this was the best book ever but it was ok. I didn’t like this book that much because it got really boring at some points of this book. One thing the author did to make the book stand out is she would twist the story around to make it even more interesting. Also she would use slanting for significant subjects in the book.

Secondly, The book Oy Joy takes place at Joy’s house and at school. At her house Joy has to deal with her dreadful 83-year-old uncle who is taking over her life. He is even stealing her room from her. Also during this book joy has some problems with finding a boyfriend and tries to get one by doing a match game. But during that joy starts to lose her best friend and starts to think her life is useless. One thing I didn’t like about the plot in the book is that after a while of this book you get really annoyed that joys life is not getting better but at the end everything came together. Besides that the books setting was entertaining. The plot of this book reminds of when I had to take care of my grandma and couldn’t see my friends. Also the plot reminds me of the movie skip because the whole movie he had to take his dog with him everywhere like joy felt like she had to be with her uncle all the time. Next, There are many characters in this book but for right now I’ll give some of the main charcters. To start off with there is Joy the main character. She is a teenager just trying to survive her stressful life with her uncle and choosing the right friends. Maple is Joys best friend who is always there for joy. Uncle Max is 83 and is having some problems with his heath so his family is trying to help him with his terrible problems and is getting really frustrated with him. Also in the book Joy has another friend named max that Joy really likes. Max is very finicky and caring, when Joy and Maple got in a fight Max was with Joy to be by her side. Rose is Uncle Max’s girlfriend who helps him a lot through the story. I didn’t especially like the character of Maple in the book because she was confusing in the story when she got mad at Joy for no reason. Other than that the characters in the book are very amusing. The characters remind me of the characters in the clique because Claire was going through the same harms as Joy as in fitting in with trendy people.

I would recommend this book to girls because this book talks more about girls problems then boys. This book wasn’t that enjoying to read so I wouldn’t advocate this to people who want to read a turn paging book, This book definitely didn’t make me feel like I wanted to keep reading on. As you can see this book was tedious at some points but is also a fascinating book at the same time.==