--Booklist, "Short, funny chapters full of exaggeration and exasperation provide lots of laughs . The reader will easily relate to Zoe's disappointment in getting almost what she wished for. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. She has a workaholic mother (a state Controller) and a father who has difficulty coping with the world outside of his home. She’s an amazing presenter who left kids laughing as well as feeling inspired and appreciated. This title has Common Core connections. She studies at the Julliard School in New York, where careers are being formed—or not. Although A Crooked Kind of Perfect includes some serious subjects - identity, friendship, family, fears, financial instability - it touches on them in a delicate way and then brings the reader back to a safe place. And Miss Charleena plans a triumphant return to Hollywood. Hare hops. The writing is deceptively simple, with short paragraphs, and plenty of white space. For Ruby Pepperdine, the “center of everything” is on the rooftop of Pepperdine Motors in her donut-obsessed town of Bunning, New Hampshire, stargazing from the circle of her grandmother Gigis hug. Among the summaries and analysis available for A Crooked Kind of Perfect , there are 1 Short Summary and 5 Book Reviews. I was really caught up in the world Vernick created; in Marley's own words, ‘it is amazingly, fantastically real. a harbinger of more good novels to come from this author.” —Kirkus Reviews, "Put this book on your "must-have" list. A CROOKED KIND OF PERFECT is a perfect kind of book for those readers, and I'm so happy I'll have it for them when school starts in a few weeks. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it!”—Joanne Rocklin, author of One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street   “Tweens will relate to this heartfelt story of a girl who is struggling to navigate the many changes in her life that seem to greet her at every turn.”—Lisa Schroeder, author of Its Raining Cupcakes   “Marley Baird is a lovely protagonist with an engaging voice, and readers will wish they could be her best friend and help her cope with all of lifes uncertainty, aggravation, and heartache. But when Dad ventures to the music store and ends up with a wheezy organ instead of a piano, Zoe's dreams hit a sour note. A coin-counting mother who works all the time. All Product Details. Zoe Elias is in fifth grade. I think the author chose this method because she prefers to keep things sharp and sweet. And yet, Linda Urban manages to pack multiple levels of meaning into every sentence. 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