Grand Canyon Reader Award
2011 · Tween · Nominee
About This Book
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.
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.
Awards
Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
2011 · Grades 3-5 · Nominee
Nene Award
2011 · Children's Fiction · Nominee
Beehive Award
2010 · Fiction · Nominee
California Young Reader Medal
2010 · Intermediate · Nominee
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award
2010 · Grades 4-8 · Nominee
Sequoyah Book Award
2010 · Children's · Nominee
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award
2010 · Grades 3-5 · Nominee
Virginia Readers Choice Award
2010 · Elementary · Nominee
Young Hoosier Book Award
2010 · Intermediate · Nominee
Black-Eyed Susan Award
2009 · Grades 4-6 · Nominee
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
2009 · Children's · Nominee
Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award
2009 · Children's · Nominee
West Virginia Children's Book Award
2009 · Children's · Nominee
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens
2008 · Seven to Ten · Recommended
Great Lakes Book Award
2008 · Chapter Book · Nominee
Great Stone Face Book Award
2008 · Grades 4-6 · Nominee
Cybils
2007 · Middle Grade Fiction · Winner
