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Language English LC Class PZ7.5.W47 Zo 2008 Country United States of America | 4/5 Goodreads Media type Print (Hardcover) Originally published 21 October 2008 Genre Novel OCLC 193819809 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pages 283 pp (hardcover edition) ISBN 978-1-59514-199-6 (hardcover edition) Similar Robert Paul Weston books, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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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.