Judith's review
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
by Linda Urban
Judith's review
A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
Judith's review
rating:
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, even though she'd kind of like to. ("I have gone over to the dork side.")
The organ competition at the end is so perfectly observed: the swoosh-click of the swing door; that feeling you get when you know you've made a mistake and just have to keep playing...
I first read about this on a children's bookseller's blog on Publisher's Weekly—it was a sleeper until they started hand-selling it, and it became one of their top sellers. Little wonder—it's a gem.
The organ competition at the end is so perfectly observed: the swoosh-click of the swing door; that feeling you get when you know you've made a mistake and just have to keep playing...
I first read about this on a children's bookseller's blog on Publisher's Weekly—it was a sleeper until they started hand-selling it, and it became one of their top sellers. Little wonder—it's a gem.
