Zoe Elias is an eleven year old girl who has dreamed all her life of becoming a piano prodigy. The only problem is that she doesn’t know how to play the piano and she doesn’t even have a one. When she asks her dad, who is afraid to come out of the house, he gets her a Perfectone D-60 organ which doesn’t sound nearly as good as a piano. Zoe’s dad hires an organ teacher, Mabeline Person to provide lessons. After a couple months of lessons, Ms. Person thinks that Zoe is ready for the Perform-O-Rama, which is an organ competition. While Zoe is practicing like crazy to get ready for the competition, her mom is at work, rarely has time for her, and only comes home at night. To add to the problem, there is a boy that follows her home from school every day and bakes with Zoe’s dad. Things aren’t really looking up. Will Zoe be ready for the Perform-O-Rama in time? Will her dreams come to a screeching halt? Read this book to find out.
This book was really good. It was also a little comical. I liked how Zoe was unique from the rest of her classmates. For example, she always wears socks and everyone in her class thinks they are so out of style, but Zoe wears them anyways just to be different. Zoe has made friends with people you wouldn’t expect and I think she is very tolerant of people’s differences. I like how her personality shines through the whole story and just wish that there were more “Zoes” in the world because I think she would be a great friend.
-Ryan K.
I also read A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban!
Zoe Elias is ten years old in the BEGINNING of this book. She has dreams!! Beautiful musical dreams of becoming a piano prodigy. Only one problem. She doesn’t have a piano. Whens he tells her parents, they get her a organ. The organ comes with six months of free lessons from a woman named Mabeline Person. Mrs. Person makes her get ginger ale ever time she comes over! (Bizzare) After two months of lessons, Mrs Person realizes that Zoe has some talent. So, Mrs. Person enrolls her into a contest called the Perform-a-Rama. She gets nervous when she meets others at the Perform-a-Rama.
At the same time, a boy named Wheeler Diggs. He follows her home everynight to bake and do activities with her dad! Wheeler becomes great friends with Zoe. Also, there’s this boy that Zoe likes! His name is Colton!
But, with all this drama, will Zoe be able to make it to the Perform-a-Rama?
This book was a really interesting book. It was a fast read. It’s 4 points. Enjoy!
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