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Reader reviewed by Dede

Oggie Cooder is a spunky kid who charves (chews and carves) cheese when he is nervous. He doesn't have many friends, except Amy, who he sits with at lunch. He tries to get along with Donnica Perfecto and her friends, but the are popular and snotty. A talent show comes to town and Donnica tries to steal his talent, by tricking him into teaching her how to charve. She doesn't know the secrets though and Oggie gets mistakenly discovered for charving. What follows is believable. Everyone wants to be friends with Oggie, Donnica becomes his manager and, along with people from the talent show, start to try to change who he really is. They want him to charve different, bigger, better, were different clothes, act different. Oggie discovers that being yourself is better than fame. Cute message in a cute book.