From the back cover:
MEET ZOEY
Age: Eleven. Well, almost eleven. Backspace. Halfway to eleven.
Factoid: 198 days to sixth grade.
Problem: Coolability (see glossary inside).
Connect the dots: A bad hair situation… Growing earlobes…
WANTED:
1. A fairy godmother.
2. A molto chic makeover [molto = very in Italian].
3. A seat at the primo lunch table. [Primo is also Italian. It means best.]
THE SOLUTION:
Tune in!
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A very short book! Which is a nice change, since I was slogging through some 600 page books recently.
The basic premise? Zoey is trying to attract the attention of a fairy godmother so she can become cool before sixth grade. Because if you’re not cool before sixth grade, then you won’t be cool in sixth grade.
The format is different. There’s some cartoons and pictures. And sometimes the font is just crazy and all over the place. And in some cases, it’s even in screenplay format. It does really give you the sense that a nearly-11-year-old wrote it. To some extent, annoyingly so!
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The Plot
Zoey Zinevitch is an almost eleven year-old fifth grader who suffers from the condition of being not cool. She isn’t quite sure why, as she also isn’t entirely sure what makes one cool in the first place — she just knows that whatever it is, she doesn’t have it. But she has 186 days left to become cool before the 6th grade, or she knows she’ll never manage it in her life.
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