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First printing of US hardcover | |
Author | Robert Paul Weston |
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Language | English |
Published | 2008 (Penguin) |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 283 pp (hardback edition) |
ISBN | 978-1-59514-199-6 (hardback edition) |
OCLC | 193819809 |
LC Class | PZ7.5.W47 Zo 2008 |
Zorgamazoo (2008) is Canadian children's author Robert Paul Weston's first novel. The work is a fantasy adventure, written entirely in rhyming anapestic tetrameter.
The story follows a young girl named Katrina Katrell, who runs away from home when her guardian threatens her with a lobotomy. Seeking shelter beneath the street, she meets Mortimer Yorgle, who belongs to a subterranean race of creatures called zorgles. Although he is ill-suited for the job, Mortimer has been sent to solve the mystery of what happened to the lost zorgles of Zorgamazoo.
The novel is a 2009 E.B. White Honor Book and won the California Young Reader Medal, the Children's Choice Award, and the Silver Birch Award from the Ontario Library Association. It was also named a top ten debut of 2008 by Booklist Magazine and a notable book of 2009 by the Children's Literature Assembly.
See also
References
- Booklist Top Ten of 2008
- Booklist Review
- Review in Canadian Children's Book News
- Children's Literature Assembly 2009 Notable Books
- Educating Alice, blogger review
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