I used to teach this in my ninth-grade English class and the kids really liked it a lot. It's a story about two teenagers who try to scam an old man, but end up befriending him and getting profoundly affected by his outlook on life.

While somewhat dated, since it was written in the late 1960s, it's still relevant to teenagers today, though the references to dialed pay phones are really foreign (I had to explain to this cell phone generation what they were!) and the kids often can't understand how times have changed in 40 years. Still, the themes of friendship, ageism, loyalty, and death are universal.

Just as good and probably a little better than when I read it twenty years ago. There is a different perspective from adulthood that makes the book fresh when read again.

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A touching story about a friendship that blossoms between two misfit kids and a lonely old man.

Meet Mr. Pignati, a lonely old man with a beer belly and an awful secret. He's the Pigman and he's got a great big smile and would have an awesome street corner Santa Claus, if you stuck a white beard on him in December. Two young kids, John and Lorraine, are his friends and know his whole sad zany story. They tell it right here in this book.

Very good book

A good read for middle school readers and older.

Really good.

Good read.

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