Loser
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Product Description
There are winners everywhere …. The sidewalks. The backyards. The alleyways. The playgrounds …
Except for Zinkoff. Zinkoff never wins.
But Zinkoff doesn’t notice. Neither do the additional pups.
Not yet.
Zinkoff is like all kids — running, playing, riding his bike. Hoping for snow days, wanting to be his dad when he grows up.
Zinkoff is not like the additional kids — raising his hand with all the incorrect answers, tripping over his own feet, falling down with laughter over a word like “Jabip.” The kids have their own word to clarify him, but Zinkoff is too busy to hear it.
Once again, Newbery Medal-winning leader Jerry Spinelli uses fantastic wit and humor to make the unique tale of Zinkoff as he travels from first through sixth grades. Loser is a touching book about the human spirit, the importance of failure, and how any name can someday be replaced with “hero.”
Amazon.com Review
Donald Zinkoff is one of the greatest kids you could ever hope to meet. He laughs easily, he likes people, he likes school, he tries to rescue lost girls in blizzards, he talks to ancient ladies. The only problem is, he’s a loser. Until fourth grade, Zinkoff’s uncontrollable giggling in class, sloppy handwriting, horrible flute playing, terrible grades, ungainliness, and ineptitude at sports go largely unnoticed. When he blows a race for his team, but, his transition to loserdom is perfect: “[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 leader Jerry Spinelli again explores the cruelty of a student body and how it does and doesn’t affect one student, pure of spirit. Presumably if Loser makes one child view a “different kid” as a three-dimensional character, Spinelli will consider his book successful.
The leader recounts Zinkoff’s tale–a case study of sorts–in fleeting sentences from a deliberately reportorial point of view, documenting the first years of the boy’s life and his evolution into a loser. What makes the book charming and bright and breezy is that the reader, like Zinkoff’s parents and his favorite teacher, appreciates the boy’s oblivious joie de vivre and his divine quirks. What is less compelling about the novel is the “let this be a lesson to us” heavy-handedness that accompanies the reportorial approach. Still, Spinelli comes through again with a lively, regularly moving tale with humor and heart to spare. (Ages 8 to 12) –Karin Snelson
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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 excellent take place and it just DOESN’T take place! It has an unsatisfying ending lacking any resolution to his sad sap life. Makes you marvel how come his family tree never got him any special help because he so needed it. It is such an dreadful 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!!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Never again will I read a Jerry Spinelli book. this guy is clueless!I despised 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 dull, but stupid and don’t make sense.Everytime I see a spinelli book I place it back on the shelf at stores. Louis sachar is the right 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.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I felt sorry for my daughter this past Summer. She selected this book out of a list of 5 to read for school. The writing was all over the place, the plot went nowhere. Really dull.
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Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book, Loser, is AWFUL. Spinelli is nearly like one of the additional kids in this book, laughing and pointing at him, like he’s the main attraction at a freak show. It’s so terribly mean, and only shows what’s become of our children today. If a name’s different, they are automatically labled as weird. It’s terrible. And Spinelli brings it out in her book as if it’s amusing. It’s sick. I’m an avid reader and very accomplished writer, so I know what I’m talking about. I read Stargirl by Spinelli, and despised that book too. I thought I’d give Spinelli a second chance by reading Loser. She doesn’t deserve it. Save your money. Buy Harry Potter or the Shadow Children books as a replacement for. Spinelli’s books are a waste of paper.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
In this book there is a boy named Donald Zinkoff. He has just now ongoing 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 permanently getting selected on and teased so school was not his favorite part of the day. He has a huge problem where he has no friends and is not fitting in he is being made fun of and teased very much. I reflect that his book is a excellent book and i recomend that you should read it.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5