Interest level: 4th grade and up
Urban, L. (2009). A crooked kind of perfect. NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Zoe Elias (10 years old) has big dreams; she dreams of owning the perfect piano andone day playing at Carnegie Hall. As an only child, she spends most of her time withher father who has a fear of leaving the house. He spends large amounts of thefamily’s money on frivolous programs from the Living Room University. When daddoes brave going out in public, he purchases Zoe an organ, along with free musiclessons to help her reach her dream. This realistic fiction follows the typical plotformat reaching its climax when Zoe competes in an organ competition call thePerform –O-Rama. Readers will cheer Zoe on as she reaches for her goal. Throughher lessons and determination, Zoe realizes that her life may not be perfect, butthere is nothing wrong with it either (theme).
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