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Get Your Act Together, Doris Kozlowski
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Get Your Act Together, Doris Kozlowski

Jo Dabrowski
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Shortlisted for The Readings Children's Prize 2024

Doris Kozlowski's life is anything but normal. Her mum plays singing vegetables in TV commercials. Her little brother befriends pebbles and potatoes. And don't even get her started on her babcia.

But Doris is good at pretending to be just like everyone else, and she has a plan to get through Year Six: keep her head down, keep her family away from the school, and keep her best and only friend, the perfect Felicity. So when Felicity ditches her for the popular girls before their first class even starts, Doris needs a new plan. She figures if she can win the talent show, Felicity will want to be friends again, and Doris can get her life back. That is, if her babcia stops trying to 'help'. And if her mum avoids more embarrassing commercials. And if her brother manages to keep her secrets. Who is she kidding? Doris is DOOMED.

Get Your Act Together, Doris Kozlowski is a hilarious yet touching middle grade debut about embracing who you are, finding your true friends and the unstoppable magic of a good musical number.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Affirm Press
Country
Australia
Date
27 June 2023
Pages
304
ISBN
9781922848734

Shortlisted for The Readings Children's Prize 2024

Doris Kozlowski's life is anything but normal. Her mum plays singing vegetables in TV commercials. Her little brother befriends pebbles and potatoes. And don't even get her started on her babcia.

But Doris is good at pretending to be just like everyone else, and she has a plan to get through Year Six: keep her head down, keep her family away from the school, and keep her best and only friend, the perfect Felicity. So when Felicity ditches her for the popular girls before their first class even starts, Doris needs a new plan. She figures if she can win the talent show, Felicity will want to be friends again, and Doris can get her life back. That is, if her babcia stops trying to 'help'. And if her mum avoids more embarrassing commercials. And if her brother manages to keep her secrets. Who is she kidding? Doris is DOOMED.

Get Your Act Together, Doris Kozlowski is a hilarious yet touching middle grade debut about embracing who you are, finding your true friends and the unstoppable magic of a good musical number.

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Affirm Press
Country
Australia
Date
27 June 2023
Pages
304
ISBN
9781922848734
 
Book Review

Get Your Act Together, Doris Kozlowski
by Jo Dabrowski

by Kate McIntosh, Jul 2023

It’s the start of Year 6 for Doris Kozlowski, and despite her dad having recently moved to the other side of the world with his new boyfriend, her Babcia refusing to make her any kind of lunch that won’t stink out the whole classroom at lunchtime, and having barely heard from her best friend over the summer holidays, Year 6 should be the best year of primary school ever. Right?

Within days Doris realises she is going to need a serious plan just to get her through the first six weeks. Friendless, humiliated by her mum’s commercial being turned into a meme, and unable to communicate with her beloved dad, everything Doris tries fails at the first attempt. Will she ever come up with the winning act for this year’s talent show and earn back the respect of her classmates and her family?

A funny, relatable story of the ups and downs of primary school, family life and friendship. Doris is an insightful, awkward young person trying to find her way in a world that can be messy, weird and wonderful all at once. Perfect for readers aged 9 to 12 years.

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