A Crooked Kind of Perfect
by Linda Urban
Ten-year-old Zoe Elias has perfect piano dreams. She can practically feel the... read more
- Grade
- 1-8
- Genre
- Humor
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2007
Word Count 29,052
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 730L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 116562
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Music
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
- Organ (Musical instrument)--Fiction
- Music
- Organ (Musical instrument)
- Family life
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | General (see also headings under Family)
- Instruction and study
- Schools--Fiction
- Music--Instruction and study--Fiction
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction
- Families
- Humorous stories
- Family life--Fiction
- Interpersonal relations
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