Looser

The main character is Donald Zinkoff. He prefers to be called Zinkoff. Zinkoff starts out as a little 6 year old, starting his first year of grade school. He tries the best he can. Zinkoff even walks to school all by himself; a hour before school even starts. He loves school so much. Zinkoff raises his hand at every question, even though he knows he is going to get it wrong. His first grade teacher doesn't see anything wrong in Zinkoff. Although he is a bit unusual. He laughs at silly word, such as Jabip, of course every young kid would, except Zinkoff doesn't stop laughing. All the kids at school knows him as the boy who laughs a lot.Ask he grows older, he acts different then the rest of the kids. He doesn't seem to notice that he still acts like a 6 year old, but the other kids do. They tease him a lot and whisper behind his back. But still, Zinkoff takes no notice, he actually thinks its fun! School gets harder for Zinkoff. The kids are mean, and so are the teachers. The teachers aren't as nice to him as his kindergarten teacher was, Zinkoff wonders why. When field day comes along, Zinkoff doesn't do as well as the other kids on his team, causing his team to lose. They start calling him a loser and telling him he's slow. He friend Andrew (who he met when he was younger) moves away. But when Zinkoff is in 6th grade he meets up with Andrew again, but Andrew doesn't want to be friends. Zinkoff face the same problems again, like bullying and being called names.Zinkoff wants to change all this by helping to find a lost girl. He spend more than 5 hours looking for her out in the freezing cold. He is terribly cold, but he keeps going. A snow plow-er finally finds him and brings him home. As it turns out, the little girl was found a little while after she was lost and all the searchers that were looking for the little girl, were looking for him.Zinkoff is six in the beginig of the book. He is a happy go-lucky kid. He enjoys school very much. He loves his kindergarten teacher and the kids there. As he gets older during the book he acts the same as a six year old. He is oblivious to the teasing the other kids give him. When he is around 8 or 9 he finally realizes that he is a loser. But in the end, Zinkoff over comes all the teasing as kids start to accept him as who he is.I loved this book because it made you feel sad at times, but happy at others. The author described the way Zinkoff was feeling throughout the book. He explained what Zinkoff was thinking. I love details and descriptions so I loved this book. Although it was not my favorite book, I loved the way Jerry Spinelli wrote it.The strategy I used was visualizing. I use this strategy because it lets you picture the plot and story the way you want it to look like. I love to visualize the way the character look and the scenery looks.