''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
Anapestic tetrameter is a poetic meter that has four anapestic metrical feet per line. Each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. It is sometimes referred to as a "reverse dactyl", and shares the rapid, driving pace ...
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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
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Dust City
References
Booklist Top Ten of 2008Booklist ReviewReview in Canadian Children's Book NewsEducating Alice, blogger review
External links
Zorgamazoo.com
2008 Canadian novels
Verse novels
Canadian children's novels
Children's fantasy novels
2008 children's books
2008 debut novels
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