Big Joe's Funeral

This book is about Walter Dean Meyers. Big Joe is one of the respected people on 145th street. Whenever you need something you can go to him and he'll help you out. One day he canceled his insurance and got 18,000 dollars. H e sadi he wanted to do his own funeral so he couldsee what people waould saya bout him. During the funeral the girl that sang cried. People said oggd things about him. Ofcourse Big Joe was in his coffin (i dont know how he could breathe. At the end Big Joe got out and said to start the party. During the party, cops came in and asked where the drugs were. Everyone was confused. The cops left b/c someone had called them and said it was a mistake. I think it was kind of funny for Big Joe to throw his own funeral. I think it was foolish too. It was wrong when the cops just came in and asked who had the drugs.