A Crooked Kind of Perfect, Linda Urban
A Crooked Kind of Perfect, Linda Urban
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A Crooked Kind of Perfect

Author: Linda Urban

Narrator: Tai Alexandra Ricci

Unabridged: 3 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/11/2007

Synopsis

Carnegie Hall, look out!

Zoe Elias has big musical dreams. As soon as she gets a glossy baby grand piano, she’ll be on her way. Trouble is, what Zoe gets is a wood-grained, vinyl-seated, wheeze-bag organ. The Perfectone D-60.

How will she ever be discovered as a prodigy when her lesson book is The Hits of the Seventies? Not even a cha-cha beat can make the theme song from The Brady Bunch sound like Beethoven. If you add to that problem a mom who’s always at work, a dad who’s afraid to leave the house, and an odd boy who follows her home from school every day, Zoe’s big dreams are looking pretty lopsided.

But when she enters the annual Perform-O-Rama organ competition, Zoe discovers that life is full of surprises–and that maybe a little lopsidedness will help her find what she’s really hoping for.

About The Author

Linda Urban grew up in Michigan with dreams of fame. Ballerina. Television star. Musician. She played the violin for a year, then begged her parents for a piano. Instead, her dad bought an organ at the mall. Although she has never competed in a Perform-O-Rama, she can still play the right-hand parts of “Up, Up and Away.” A former bookseller in California, Ms. Urban now lives in Vermont with her family. A Crooked Kind of Perfect is her first novel. Visit www.lindaurbanbooks.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Betsy on August 21, 2007

Humor is just so hard in children's books. You either crash too hard on the adult side of the equation (see: The Manny Files) or you end up going too far the other direction and end up ridiculously scatological (see: Out of Patience). The balance has to be perfect and, if you want your book to be me......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on October 08, 2019

This was just plain perfect! In this little gem of a book, Zoe yearns to play the piano. She is sure that the minute her teacher hears her, she will be declared a prodigy and find herself on stage at Carnegie Hall. But Zoe has problems: her mom is a workaholic, her dad is an agoraphobic, her best fri......more

Goodreads review by Jessica (Goldenfurpro) on January 04, 2016

This and other reviews can be found on The Psychotic Nerd MY THOUGHTS I originally picked up this book because of the cover. It may be obvious by my profile picture, but I LOVE striped socks. I honestly had no idea what this book was about. Just the fact that it's middle grade. Turns out, this book......more

Goodreads review by Colby on January 31, 2012

Sometimes authors write 5 star books, and sometimes authors are 5 star writers. Linda Urban is a 5 star writer.......more

Goodreads review by Kennedyf on February 28, 2018

I think this book was good but I like these kinds of books so that's probably why I give them good reviews. This book is about a girl named Zoe who sooooooo desperately wants to get a piano and be a professional. But instead she gets a wheezy organ. Her friend kind of breaks up there friendship so s......more

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