Perfect

Perfect
By:Natasha Friend
Published on 2010-01-01 by Milkweed Editions

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 a all-eyes-open awareness of everybody's relative social position. But everything is not normal, really. Since the dealth 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.

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Book ID of Perfect's Books is R8gIhwQ-GrwC, Book which was written byNatasha Friend

Book which was published by Milkweed Editions since 2010-01-01 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781571318015 and ISBN 10 Code is 1571318011

Book which have "232 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryJuvenile Fiction

This Book was rated by 22 Raters and have average rate at "4.0"

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