Loser (精装)

出版社：HARPER COLLINS (2002年5月1日)  作者：Jerry Spinelli  

内容概要

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 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 author recounts Zinkoff's story--a case study of sorts--in short 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   buoyant 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, often moving story with humor and heart to   spare. (Ages 8 to 12) --Karin Snelson