A crooked kind of perfect

 Urban, L. (2009). A crooked kind of perfect. NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Urban depicts a character of a ten-year-old Zoe Elias, a fifth grade girl who just wants to fit in with her group at school. She is a talented musician whose aspiration is to play the piano, which ends up winning a trophy in the Perform-O-Rama competition. She comes to find that her love to play the piano has a positive impact on her social life and parents. The setting took a role in the story, if it wasn't at her playing the piano at her living room, Zoe wouldn't have been able to have her piano lessons to play in the Perform-O-Rama. It is a feel-good message about how doing one's best and believing in oneself are what really matters in life. That even though you think you're not good enough to do what you would want, you should at least try.