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- W4237003664 abstract "Reviewed by: The Luxe Karen Coats Godbersen, Anna The Luxe. HarperCollins, 2007433p Library ed. ISBN 978-0-06-134567-8$18.89 Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-06-134566-1$17.99 R Gr. 7-10 Zoe Elias dreams of being a world-famous piano player, but her real life isn't so promising. Her father is a borderline agoraphobic who panics whenever he has to leave the house, and her mother is a workaholic who likes nothing better than a good budget crisis that keeps her at the office crunching numbers. She manages to get her father to agree to buy her a piano, but a trip to the mall proves too much for him, and he's seduced into buying a Perfectone D-60 organ with luxuriously realistic walnut veneer instead, which comes with free lessons and Twenty-four (24!) rhythm styles but lacks the elegance and grace of Zoe's imagined piano. While ten-year-old Zoe has a love/hate relationship with the organ, her dream of piano-prodigy glory never falters, since she maintains that a piano experience would be different, i.e., she would love practicing, she would sound better, she could play classical music rather than theme songs from '70s TV shows, etc. Short, funny chapters full of exaggeration and exasperation provide lots of laughs and keep the plot chugging along. Secondary character Wheeler Diggs, a rough and rowdy classmate who follows Zoe home and soon becomes a fixture in her family's kitchen helping her dad with his endless pursuit of baking classes from Living Room University, is refreshingly charming and original. Readers with their own dreams, weird obsessions, and quirky hobbies will be heartened by the message that a few bumps, compromises, and sour notes along the way can pay off in a major key. Copyright © 2008 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois" @default.
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- W4237003664 title "A Crooked Kind of Perfect (review)" @default.
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