The Boy Zinkoff Summary

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Zinkoff is a little kid, who you never to notice him. But as usual, his parents really love him. At the beginning of this story, Zinkoff startes his first day of school. Zinkoff’s first grade life is kind of getting in trouble. His parents, his classmates and his first grade teacher: Miss Meeks. This is Miss Meeks last year at this school, she is going to retire. But she meets a problem boy: Zinkoff. When she welcomes her new pupils arrive, she just sees Zinkoff’s funky hat,which is a giraffe hat. She stopped and surprises with Zinkoff. She knows, this will be a trouble. Zinkoff Always remembers that Miss Meeks tells them they have two thousand one hundred and sixty day left at the beginning of the first grade. He loves school, he thinks every …show more content…
She also doesn’t like Zinkoff because he is a laugher. Sometims bad things also make him laugh. “he laugh as naturally as he breathes.” This kind of laugh also gives Zinkoff some problem. The last problem for Mrs. Biswell is that Zinkoff’s handwriting is to bad to understand, so she also gives him C or D. But Zinkoff thinks his hand writing is atrocious. But Zinkoff only gets 2 B in the second grade. In “take your kid to work day” Mr.Zinkoff takes Zinkoff to work as a mailman. Zinkoff is very excited about this because his dream is being a cool mailman, just like his father. In Zinkoff’s eyes, a mailman is just like a superman. And also during that day he meets the waiting man who has been waiting for his brother in the past ten years. At the third grade, Andrew and his family is gone, they move to another place. And Zinkoff goes through the worse period in all his eight years,he has surgery. At that time, Mr Zinkoff becomes very busy between hospital and work place. Inthe fourth grades Zinkoff is discovered. This discovery begins one the first day of fourth grade.Mr. Yalowitz is the class’s first man teacher. Because he notices Zinkoff is the first Z he has ever had in his class, so he let Zinkoff in the …show more content…
Zinkoff loves to be a fifth grader. But at fifth grade Zinkoff hears a world: the loser. His sloppy hand writhing and artwork, his hapless fluting, his mediocre. All this things make his classmates tag him. At that period he meets a little girl: Claudia. She becomes his friends. At the graduation, Zinksoff has some sad felling,but he is still very happy. Because he still has many days left in school. The conflict happens in a snow day when Zinkoff is a middle school student. Claudia is lost. In that big snowy day Zinkoff doesn’t go home and just looking for Claudia. He calls her name for thousands times but still can not find her. He walks one block and one block but still can not find her. He spends 7 hours outside just for her. The falling plot is because the weather is so cold and bad. Zinkoff cann’t control his body, he just falls in a faint. Luckily his father finds him and take him back home. In fact, Claudia had been finding that she dead in someone’s car. The ending of this story is all the people think Zinkoff isn’t a loser because he is only a middle school student but just for looking a little girl, he walked in a snowy day about seven hours.he is not a loser,he is a

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