Zorgamazoo

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.

Zorgamazoo
First printing of US hardcover
AuthorRobert Paul Weston
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Published2008 (Penguin)
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages283 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN978-1-59514-199-6 (hardback edition)
OCLC193819809
LC ClassPZ7.5.W47 Zo 2008

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.

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