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    <body><![CDATA[I adored this book. Hilarious, sad, suspenseful, and definitely quirky-odd-good. <br/><br/>Loved Zoe's resilience. She gets dumped by her best friend and is invited (by former friend's mom, who doesn't know of the dumpage, in the way that moms of 11-year-olds always know nothing) to former friend'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34501614">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Victoria will be playing 'Getting jiggy with it' on her Hammond J-80.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is such a charmer of a book, gentle and funny and completely satisfying. I love the understated way the dad's inability to deal with the world is handled (it's agoraphobia, actually), the growing friendship between Zoe and Wheeler Diggs and the way Zoe refuses to give in to the popular  girls, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20705439">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not necessarily the type of book I would normally pick up, but the author is a former children's bookseller. That right there peaked my interest because as a children's bookseller I knew she had to have hundreds of children's books over the years and could easily tell a good one from a crapp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6914911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i really want to read it but i am in the middle of another book right know]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Zoe Elias has grand dreams of being a pianist. For her, there is nothing better to be. She imagines evening gowns, audiences awaiting in anticipation, beautiful recitals, much adoration. So you can understand how, when her father comes home with a Perfectone D60 Organ, instead of her lovely piano, w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42655736">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm surprised by how much I liked this book. It has so much appeal to 4th/5th grade, maybe even 6th grade. The chapters are very short and nearly self-contained. It's witty. The characters are eccentric but in a way that's normal. Zoe is a ten year-old girl who desperately wants to be a prodigy pian...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76326327">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The back of this book notes that this is a novel for ages 8 to 12.  Well, I'm more than 8 to 12.  I'm more than 8 *plus* 12.  But then again, I watch Arthur and listen to High School Musical.<br/><br/>So it shouldn't be much of a surprise that I found A Crooked Kind of Perfect to be absolutely del...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71595171">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fantastic book for upper elementary and middle school kids who aren't ready to make that leap into high school issues and angst.  It's a sweet, honest, funny story about a girl with grand piano dreams and a wheezy organ reality.  This book makes music.  It left me smiling, and humming alon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4841609">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Best book I've read in a long time--YA or otherwise. How it is supposed to be: 10 year old Zoe Elias wants to be a piano prodigy and play Carnegie Hall. How it is: Her dad buys her a Perfectone D-60 (a wheezebag of an organ) instead. It's smart and funny and mortifying and touching. I loved it. ]]></body>
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