Zorgamazoo
2008 novel by Robert Paul Weston
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
Children's literature portal
- Dust City
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
External links
https://robertpaulweston.com
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