Reader reviewed by Rayann

  The Pigman by Paul Zindel, is a book about two kids that learn a lesson when they meet a man named Mr.Pignati. They learn to appreciate what they have and what other people have.

 

   This story starts with John writing the first chapter. He talks about how he hates high school and all the things he did as a freshman. Then we meet Lorraine, who writes the second chapter of this book. She talks about how John did really do all the things he said he did as a freshman. She also writes about how when she got there to that school, that no one really liked her, then how she met John.

    Lorraine tells how they have a phone marathon, who ever can stay on the phone the longest with a complete stranger, wins. When its her turn she closes her eyes, runs her finger down the phone book page and lands on Mr.Pignatis name. She is on the phone with him and ends up getting invited to his house. John convinces her to go to his house. When they get there, they end up going over there everyday to visit and drink wine with him. One day they go to the zoo and meet one of Mr.Pignatis best friends.

     They all become good friends and hang out a lot. Then one day when they are having fun in Mr.Pignatis  home, he has a heart attack. Lorraine and John go and visit him in the hospital once.

     While he is in the hospital they take care of his house, till John decides to have a party at Mr.Pignatis house. He thinks that the party was awesome till he finds out all he had done was wrong.

      When they try to make it up to him a surprising thing happens. Its a good way to end a book that tells a message like this. You will have to read this book to find out what the message is.

    When they try to make it up to him a surprising thing happens. Its a good way to end a book that tells a message like this. You will have to read this book to find out what the message is.

    
     My final review on this book is that it is a very good book. I defiantly recommend it for a good time consumer. I like the characters, and the setting, its just a great book. I am hoping I get to read other Paul Zindel books and see if they would be as good as this one.

Reader reviewed by Zach

My book review is on a book named The Pigman. The author is Paul Zindel.To me this book was terrific. In the beginning John was talking about these weird bombs that he had made, and hid in the bathroom, and as he heard them, he would chuckle. He`s a smoker, and a drinker. Lorraine actually likes john, and one day they met Mr.Pignati, and they changed forever. Mr.Pignati has these pig statues all over his house, and when John and Lorraine throw a party, the statues get broken. When Mr.Pignati found out he banished them from his home. Mr.Pignati changed t here lives forever.They were very sad about how Mr.Pignati banished them. Then they found out about his secret.

Despite everything, now John And Lorraine want to do something good  with there life.

To Me this was a great book and I think you should pick it up sometime and just start reading!

Reader reviewed by cole

Book Review Outline

Book title and author: The Pigman  by Paul Zindel

Title of review: Why you should read the Pigman

Number of stars (1 to 5):

The Pigman is a pretty good book to read. It never gets dull and stupid. Its real interesting it makes u just want to keep reading the book.
 

 John,lorraine, and the Pigman are the main characters. John is pretty popular in school and lorraine isnt. The Pigman is a lonely old man whos best friend is an baboon. Johns nickname is bathroom bomber because he sets off bombs in the schools bathrooms. John and Lorraine met the pigman by phone pranks. They went to the zoo with him the next day and came very good friends with him.

The Pigman bought John and Lorraine both roller skates too.The pigman bought Lorraine stockings for her but she gave them to her mother so she wouldnt get in trouble by her. The Pigman had a stroke while playing with John and Lorraine and had to go to the hospital.   
 

While he was in the hospital John and Lorraine went through the pigmans and hes dead wifes stuff. The next day they decided to have a party in his house while he was at the hospital. They only meant to invite a couple of people but a lot of people showed up. Norton one of them who they didnt invite because they didnt like him showed up.
  
Norton started to snoop through the house and john was keeping his eye on him started to follow him through the house. When John finally found him Norton as breaking things and stealing things and tried to run out of the house. John chased him down and started hitting him right in front off the front door and the pigman walked in. If you want to know more you have to read the book

Reader reviewed by Tanner/cupcake WV

The Pig man by Paul Zindel

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Number of stars (4 to 5):

At the beginning of the story there is a couple kids named Lorraine and John. They have been friends a while.

They prank call random people every Wednesday. They call a guy named the pig man . He likes to talk a lot on the phone. Lorraine and John made up this pretend donation thing called L&J.

The pig man wants to donate some money to them like 10 dollars. John thought it was a bad idea at first but they went anyway. They got there and all he did was talk until they said we have to go. .

The pig man gave them there money and they asked why hes house was so dirty. He said hes wife was in California. He said she did all the cleaning .He said shes been gone a month. The pig man almost started crying.

I hope you like this book. It is interesting.

Reader reviewed by Ronnie from West Virginia

Book title and author: The Pig man and Paul Zindel  

Title of review: The Pigs

Number of stars (1 to 5): 3

 

There are some kids named Lorriane and John. These kids have been friends for a while.   

 

Lorriane John and a couple of there friends prank call somebody every Wednesday. Well it was Lorraines turn and she picked out Angelo Pignati. Well she calls this guy and he answers and they were talking and he asked why they called and she said she want him to donate some money. He asked for what fund and she said on the L&J fund. 

 

Well they sat up a day to come and get it. Well they gone up to get the money and then Mr.Pignati asked if they wanted to go to the zoo. They said they would.

 

They went to the zoo and went and feed this gorilla an his name was Bobo. Then they went home.

 

John Lorraine ands Mr.Pignati hanged out with each other for a little while. If you want to know what else happened then you will have to get the book and just read it.

Reader reviewed by Lee from WV

The Pigman is a book filled with life lessons. All the lessons you will learn by reading this story will lead up to main one in the end. I really learned a lot by reading this book. So you probably will too. In The Pigman two high school students named John and Lorraine play a prank and they let it get out of hand. That is how they met the pigman (Mr. Pignati). They become good friends with him. Then one day they betray him in many different ways.

John and Lorrain were having a telephone marathon and Lorrain picked out Mr.Pignatis name because he only lived a few blocks away. Lorrain was talking to Mr.Pignati as a charity worker and asked him to donate some money to her charity. Mr.Pignati wanted them to come over and collect the money and when John and Lorrain got there they discovered that he was a very lonely man and he collected pigs. That is how he got his nick name The Pigman. So John and Lorrain kept coming back to Mr.Pignati house.

The Pigman, Lorrain, and John was roller skating threw the house. The Pigman stopped and looked at John he was having a heart attack.


John called 911 because Lorrain was in shock and an ambulance came and got Mr.Pignati. When Mr.Pignati was in the hospital John and Lorrain had a party in the Pigmans house and accidently broke the pig collection he had. When Mr.Pignati got home he saw that his pig collection had been broken and he banished them from his house. After this happened Mr.Pignati died. and John and Lorrain understands life now.

I thought this book is pretty good. I would recommend this book to pretty much anybody.

Reader reviewed by Alisa

     The title of this book is The Pigman. There are three main characters of this story. The characters names are John, Lorraine, and The Pigman. In the beginning of this story the two young teenagers, John and Lorraine, make a prank call to an old mans house. They tell the old man they are part of a fundraiser and they need donations. The old man is tries to be generous by invited the teenagers to his house to donate them money. The two teenagers and the old man become close. Lorraine and John visit the old man at his house everyday. They called the old man Pigman because he collected pigs, but his real name was Mr. Pignati. The Pigman also had a monkey named Bobo who lived at the local zoo.

 

     A main event in this story was when John and Lorraine find out the old mans wife had died years ago. Another main event in this story was when Mr. Pignati had a heart attack. When he had the heart attack, which was from rolling skating in the house with John and Lorraine, he left the house to them. The two teenagers decide to have a party in Mr. Pignatis house that turns into a disaster.

 

     I really liked this story. Although the ending was horrible, I really liked it. My favorite part was when John and Lorraine are searching through Mr. Pignatis house and they decide to dress up. They were pretending to be married and John throws Lorraine on the bed and kissed her.

 

      It was a very interesting story. I would definitely read it again.

I really recommend the book The Pigman. It is actually one of my favorite books.

 

Reader reviewed by tyler

Book title and author: Pig Man Paul Zindel

Title of review: Pig Man

There are three main characters are Larraine and john and Mr.Pignati. But they call him the pig man because he has like millions pig statues

 

Larraine and john call Mr.Pignati and say they are with the J & H charity and ask him for a donation of ten dollars. They go and pick up the money and stay for a long time.         

 

I thought the book was boring because there is no action and it is kind of sad at the end but you can find out for your self if u read this book but I am not tell you about it.

 

I would not recommend this book because it is sad and if you like action there is no acting in this book at all and would be good if u is a girl because girls like the kind of stuff that is sad.

This book is not a good book so dont get it get some thing else that u think u would like but I personally do not like this book at all

Reader reviewed by Quentin

Book title and author: THE PIGMAN Paul Zindel           

Title of review: Pigman

Number of stars (1 to 5): 3

This book is about a boy and a girl John and Lorraine. One day they decide to prank call someone with some of there friends.

                 

They end up getting Mr. Piganit they start to talk to him and they fell sorry because he doesnt know whats going on, but they still follow thru with the prank.

So they end up going to his house and getting some money. They started to fell bad but they still took advantage of the old man.

So they end up going to his house and getting some money. They started to fell bad but they still took advantage of the old man. They start to talk to the old man more and more every day.

Even though that John and Lorraine took advantage of the old man they still keep him company.

I think that this was an ok book and anyone that likes a funny and exciting story should read The Pigman

Reader reviewed by D

The Pigman is about two kids named John and Lorraine who prank calls Mr. Pignati. Then they keep on going over to his house everyday, but they have to try to hide it from their friends so their friends dont think something weird is going on.

John and Lorraine really do not know what they are getting themselves into when they prank call Mr. Pignati. They think that they are just playing a practical jock but they dont know that they are going to be friends with this total stranger. And that they are going to make this mans life better

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In this story Mr. Pignati acts just like a little kid in this story. He loves to take the kids (John and Lorraine) out shopping and every thing else. The character John has a problem in this story the problem is that he grew up around a person that drinks a lot. So now John thinks that is okay to drink and smoke. Lorraine trys to convince John that he can get lung cancer or even worse and die, but John doesnt listen to her.
I think that this is a really good book. If you read this book you will really like it. It has different emotions like mad, sad, frustrated, sorry, and joyful. The author really does know how to write a good book

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This is a very good book. And you will definitely like this book.