A Crooked Kind of Perfect
Linda Urban, Author . Harcourt $16 (213p) ISBN 978-0-15-206007-7
Former bookseller Urban makes a highly promising fiction debut with this sweet, funny novel, relayed in short, titled entries. Ten-year-old Zoe dreams of becoming a famous pianist (as she says in “How It Was Supposed to Be,” “A piano is sophisticated. Glamorous. Worldly”). But her quasi-agoraphobic father has one of his usual freak-outs as he attempts to shop for a piano and buys her an electric organ instead. How can Zoe possibly become the next Vladimir Horowitz if she has to play on a “Perfectone D-60”? Grudgingly, she begins taking lessons from Mabelline Person (pronounced “Per-
Reviewed on: 08/20/2007
Release date: 09/01/2007
Genre: Children's
Hardcover - 213 pages - 9780152060077
Paperback - 213 pages - 9780152066086
Downloadable Audio - 1 pages - 9780739361450
Compact Disc - 3 pages - 9780739361443
Compact Disc - 3 pages - 9780739359617
Prebound-Glued - 213 pages - 9780606144667
Open Ebook - 224 pages - 9780152066697
Prebound-Sewn - 213 pages - 9781613830789