Booth, Joey's mom's new boyfriend, tries to see the positive in everything. Joey's dad keeps driving by the house with his motorcycle and steals the one thing most special in Joey's life just to speak with Joey. Joey's shoot-from-the-hip grandmother is back living with Joey and his mother urging Joey to find a friend. But Olivia, the girl Joey is home schooled with, is definitely not a friend. She is always trying to find new ways to get Joey in trouble, like writing "Joey" with magic marker in the bathroom and then saying Joey did it. Mrs. Lapp, Olivia's mother, always asks Joey, "What would Jesus do?" The question this book answers is, "What would Joey do?" when faced with all this. Find out in What Would Joey Do , by Jack Gantos.