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Ten-year-old Zoe Elias has perfect piano dreams. She can practically feel the keys under her flying fingers; she can hear the audience's applause. All she needs is a baby grand so she can start her lessons, and then she'll be well on her way to Carnegie Hall. But when Dad... read more
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Summary edit
She wants to play the piano but when she does every thing goes wrong
Characters/People edit
- Zoe Elias: The main character who really wants to be a prodigy piano player just like "Horowitz". She also like socks with toes that are greenish blueish stripes with pink toes.
- Mr. Elias: The person who raised her and listens to her organ. Her Father.
- Mrs. Person: Her organ teacher.
- Wheeler: zoe's bud.
- Mona: A friend who Zoe meets at the Preform-O-Rama. Judy's daughter.
- Emma Dent: Zoe's friend.
- Judy: Is the mother of Mona, Zoe's friend.
- Colton: Colten Shell is smitten. He likes Zoe.
- Mrs. Trimble: Add a description of this character.
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Les
- Hugh
- Mika
- Lily Parker
- Henry
- Marty
- Becky
- Harry
- Zsa Zsa
- Daniel
- Jeannie
- Nunzio
- Goober
- Andy Markowitz
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
I was supposed to play the piano.
Table of Contents edit
1. How It Was Supposed to Be
2. How It Is
3. Vladimir Horowitz
4. The Controller
5. On Paper
6. 432
7. The Perfectone D-60
8. !!!!!
9. Maestro
10. Mabelline Person
11. Float Like a Butterfly
12. Telling Emma Dent
13. Here's the Story
14. You Are Invited
15. For The Girl Who Has Everything
16. Emma Dent's Really Big Shoe
17. Everybody Knows That
18. 5:45
19. 6:00
20. Are You Ready to Rumba
21. Hugh
22. In the Pink
23. Wheeler Diggs
24. I Dream of Jeannie
25. The Perfectone Songbook
26. Another Way the Organ is Not Like the Piano
27. Zsa Zsa Goober
28. Another Diploma
29. Fireside Chat
30. I Don't Need No Stinking Badges
31. The Wheeler on the Bus
32. Who Is This Kid? (No more fit.)
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Linda Urban (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0152060073
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0152060073
Page Count: 224
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- Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Family Life › Parents › Fiction
- Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Girls & Women › Fiction
- Books › Children's Books › Literature › Humorous
- Books › Children's Books › Issues
- Books › Children's Books › Ages 9-12
- Books › Teens › Social Issues
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