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Perfect

by Natasha Friend   |  Ages 13+
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Perfect
Perfect

Teenage struggle with loss, identity, and eating disorders.

"Perfect" could resonate with you if you've ever felt the pressure to fit in, especially during those tough teenage years. It provides an authentic look at the challenges many teens face, such as grief, body image, and the social hierarchies of school life. Isabelle's journey offers a heartfelt exploration of what it means to find oneself amidst personal turmoil and the expectations of others.

  • Milkweed Prize for Children's Literature
  • Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2007)
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Perfect

by Natasha Friend   |  Ages 13+
RM37.00 MYR
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ISBN: 9781571316516
Authors: Natasha Friend
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Date of Publication: 2004-09-16
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Young Readers, Chapter Books
Related Topics: Humor, Realistic Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.77
(rated by 14075 readers)

Description

Depicting with humor and insight the pressure to be outwardly perfect, this novel for ages 10-13 shows how one girl develops compassion for her own and others’ imperfections. For 13-year-old Isabelle Lee, whose father has recently died, everything's normal on the outside. Isabelle describes the scene at school with bemused accuracy--the self-important (but really not bad) English teacher, the boy that is constantly fixated on Ashley Barnum, the prettiest girl in class, and the dynamics of the lunchroom, where tables are turf in an all-eyes-open awareness of everybody's relative social position. But everything is not normal, really. Since the death of her father, Isabelle's family has only functioned on the surface. Her mother, who used to take care of herself, now wears only lumpy, ill-fitting clothes, cries all night, and has taken every picture of her dead husband and put them under her bed. Isabelle tries to make light of this, but the underlying tension is expressed in overeating and then binging. As the novel opens, Isabelle's little sister, April, has told their mother about Isabelle's problem. Isabelle is enrolled in group therapy. Who should show up there, too, but Ashley Barnum, the prettiest, most together girl in class.
 

Teenage struggle with loss, identity, and eating disorders.

"Perfect" could resonate with you if you've ever felt the pressure to fit in, especially during those tough teenage years. It provides an authentic look at the challenges many teens face, such as grief, body image, and the social hierarchies of school life. Isabelle's journey offers a heartfelt exploration of what it means to find oneself amidst personal turmoil and the expectations of others.

  • Milkweed Prize for Children's Literature
  • Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.