A Crooked Kind of Perfect

A Crooked Kind of Perfect

By Linda Urban

36 ratings 19 reviews 88 followers
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grades 3 - 5U3.929052

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.

Publisher: Sandpiper
Published on 4/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 224

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its a bout a girl and she absoulutley loves the piano and her dad misses it and dweebler steels her dad so she hopes for the best

I got this book and I looked up books liek out of myy mind and this came up. It got good reiwews I jope I like it!

This book is about a girl named Zoe who is perfect in a crooked kind of way. Zoe wants to be a prodigy on the piano. She has always dreamed of playing one. But when her dad buys her a boring old Organ her drems are crushed. Well atleast that is what she thinks! Eventually, she realesed that no thing or person is perfect. She learns a big lesson that no one is perfect. I love this book! you should definetly read it!

I love this book. It says that not everyone is perfect-but that's complety fine!

This is a really good book and it is pretty easy to read. When you think about the title a little bit it makes sense- a kind of perfect that is crooked.

this book was weird...i didnt finish it because it was so confusing... i give it 6 out of 10

it is about a girl who likes the piano but her parents get her an organ instead and she has to live with it. READ