Loser
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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Even though his classmates from first-grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Daniel Zinkoff’s optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feelAmazon.com Review
Donald Zinkoff is one of the greatest kids you could ever hope to meet. He laughs easily, he likes people, he loves school, he tries to rescue lost girls in blizzards, he talks to old ladies. The only problem is, he’s a loser. Until fourth grade, Zinkoff’s uncontrollable giggling in class, sloppy handwriting, horrible flute playing, bad grades, clumsiness, and ineptitude at sports go largely unnoticed. When he blows a race for his team, however, his transition to loserdom is complete: “[Loser] is the word. It is Zinkoff’s new name. It is not in the roll book.” Fortunately, he doesn’t really notice. As he did in Stargirl, Newbery Medal-winning author Jerry Spinel… More >>
Never again will I read a Jerry Spinelli book. this guy is clueless!I hated this book, it should have been called the : the dumbest book ever! it should have had a warning on it: don’t read me. I’m not only boring, but stupid and don’t make sense.Everytime I see a spinelli book I put it back on the shelf at stores. Louis sachar is the true meaning of an authur.I’m more mad I waste my time reading this most likely to go in the trash book.the book is about a boy name zinkoff whose classmate says he’s a looser , but with the Blah, blah blah. looser is the first and the last spinelli book I will read . Get a grip mr.spinelli.I know this book could have been better……if Louis sachar, ann m. martin, or norma fox mazer( even I could have been a better authur and I suck at being an arthur.) was the authur.as for spinelli never again will I read such a stupid book.I wish I could give it zero stars too.
I felt sorry for my daughter this past Summer. She picked this book out of a list of 5 to read for school. The writing was all over the place, the plot went nowhere. Really boring.
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This has got to be the worst book I have ever read. I say this because throughout the entire depressing book, you are waiting for it to turn around and for this kid to become a non loser, to make a friend, to have something good happen and it just DOESN’T happen! It has an unsatisfying ending without any resolution to his sad sap life. Makes you wonder how come his family never got him any special help because he so needed it. It is such an awful book with such an unpleasant abrupt ending that I will never take the chance on reading another Spinelli book ever. I want my money back and if I could recapture the hours of my life that I wasted on reading it, I would want that back too!!
In this book there is a boy named Donald Zinkoff. He has just now started the first grade. He is not fitting in very well he does everything that he is told to do by the teacher and he is always getting picked on and teased so school was not his favorite part of the day. He has a big problem where he has no friends and is not fitting in he is being made fun of and teased very much. I think that his book is a good book and i recomend that you should read it.
No I did not like this book because it’s not about something I like. The only books I like are about horses and this book had nothing to do with horses. I choose to read this book because it’s by one of my favorite authors and I have read a couple of Jerry Spinelli’s books before.
This book is about a boy called Donald Zinkoff . He is a loser at everything including relay races and playing the flute. He also laughs a lot and he also likes to run away from home. He’s not actually running away he’s actually going for a walk. In the winter he goes out looking for this little girl called Claudia. But Claudia gets found by 8:00 and Zinkoff doesn’t know that. When Zinkoff isn’t back by 8:00 his mother and father are worried. The snowplow guy has Zinkoff hop in his truck and he takes Zinkoff home in his truck.
Any body that likes books by Jerry Spinelli books you might like this one.