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Poverty-stricken Joseph bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him. -- Provided by publisher. Joe Oak is used to living on unsteady ground. His mom can't be depended on as she never stays around long once she gets "the itch," and now he and his beloved grandmother find themselves without a home. Fortunately, Joe has an outlet in his journals and drawings and takes comfort from the lessons of comic books -- superheroes have a lot...

"Almost-eleven-year-old Josephine is NOT pleased to be moving into the Happy World trailer park over the summer of 1974. She misses her beautiful bedroom with ballerinas on the wall and her pretty, well-dressed friends. Happy World isn't happy. It's dingy and depressing! Nothing like the world that headstrong Josephine wants for herself. But when Josephine learns that her would-be next door neighbor in Happy World was kidnapped months ago, she develops...

Joe Oak está acostumbrado a vivir en terreno inestable. No se puede depender de su madre, ya que nunca se queda mucho tiempo con ella una vez que le da "picazón", y ahora él y su querida abuela se encuentran sin un hogar. Afortunadamente, Joe tiene una salida en sus diarios y dibujos y se consuela con las lecciones de los cómics: los superhéroes tienen muchos momentos de "y luego boom", donde todo amenaza con arruinarse pero de alguna manera...