We just completed our third novel. Loser is a book by award winner Jerry Spinelli. The main character in the novel is Zinkoff. One word that describes Zinkoff is goofy. The reason I think this word describes him because he is very funny. The setting in this story is outside, school, home, the dark seller and alleys.
Zinkoff wanted to be a mail man. Zinkoff loves school. One of his teachers got really mad at him because he drew on the chalk board. His other teacher sat him in the front row because when his teacher was in school he had to sit in the last row. Then a snow day came and he went and played in the snow. Claudia came up missing, and Zinkoff went looking for her. Zinkoff's parents got scared because he never came home. So they called the cops to find him. Then he came home and told his mom what he was doing. So they told him that Claudia was found around 7:00 p.m
The best part of the book was when he went looking for Claudia. I would change it so Zinkoff got lost and Claudia went looking for him. I think it would have been more interesting. One of zinkoffs character traits was caring because he went looking for Claudia. Another character trait during the story was Zinkoff is goofy. I did like this book because some of it seemed real. I also liked it because he sucks at every thing but he try's to do it.
