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A Crooked Kind of Perfect

A Crooked Kind of Perfect

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Availability:In StockContributor:Linda UrbanAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2009-04-06Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Clarion BooksISBN-13:9780152066086ISBN-10:015206608XUPC:9780152066086Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Girls & Women, Family, Performing ArtsBook Topic:Blended Families, MusicAward:2010 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Nominee - Grades 3-5 Award|2011 Nene Award Nominee - Children's Fiction AwardSize:7.60 x 5.10 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCK4Q7FEGG

Ten-year-old Zoe Elias has perfect piano dreams. She can practically feel the keys under her flying fingers; she can hear the audience's applause. All she needs is a baby grand so she can start her lessons, and then she'll be well on her way to Carnegie Hall.

But when Dad ventures to the music store and ends up with a wheezy organ instead of a piano, Zoe's dreams hit a sour note. Learning the organ versions of old TV theme songs just isn't the same as mastering Beethoven on the piano. And the organ isn't the only part of Zoe's life in Michigan that's off-kilter, what with Mom constantly at work, Dad afraid to leave the house, and that odd boy, Wheeler Diggs, following her home from school every day.

Yet when Zoe enters the annual Perform-O-Rama organ competition, she finds that life is full of surprises--and that perfection may be even better when it's just a little off center.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Clarion BooksISBN-13:9780152066086ISBN-10:015206608XUPC:9780152066086Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Girls & Women, Family, Performing ArtsBook Topic:Blended Families, MusicAward:2010 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Nominee - Grades 3-5 Award|2011 Nene Award Nominee - Children's Fiction AwardSize:7.60 x 5.10 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCK4Q7FEGG
Urban, Linda: - Linda Urban's debut novel, A Crooked Kind of Perfect, was selected for many best books lists and was nominated for twenty state awards. She is also the author of Hound Dog True, The Center of Everything, Milo Speck, Accidental Agent, and the chapter book Weekends with Max and His Dad, which received two starred reviews. A former bookseller, she lives in Vermont. Visit Linda online at lindaurbanbooks.com and on Twitter at @lindaurbanbooks.
Publisher: Clarion Books

Awards

🏆 2010 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Nominee - Grades 3-5 Award|2011 Nene Award Nominee - Children's Fiction Award

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Linda Urban

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