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| Original Title: | Perfect |
| ISBN: | 1571316515 (ISBN13: 9781571316516) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Milkweed Prize for Children's Literature, Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2007) |
Natasha Friend
Paperback | Pages: 172 pages Rating: 3.77 | 12702 Users | 1198 Reviews
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| Title | : | Perfect |
| Author | : | Natasha Friend |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 172 pages |
| Published | : | September 16th 2004 by Milkweed Editions |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Realistic Fiction. Fiction. Health. Mental Health. Contemporary. Mental Illness. Teen |
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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.Rating Regarding Books Perfect
Ratings: 3.77 From 12702 Users | 1198 ReviewsCommentary Regarding Books Perfect
Read this back in seventh grade and loved it. It gave me more of a idea of who I didn't want to be and convinced me not to become a binger. My middle school years were not the best and I almost did some pretty bad shit. I almost started bad habits and said very ugly things to my family and this was were books became part of my foundation more that they ever were for me and reliever and a place I could escape life. Now I am happy and better but this book convinced me that binging is bad and thatI retained a lot of useful information from this book. My favorite character in this book, Isabelle Lee, is a teenager who is very sensitive about her weight. She cares a lot about what people think of her and she stuffs her face with food then forces herself to throw it all up. This book is about Isabelle, her sister, and her mom and how they are struggling from the loss of their dad/husband who died from a sickness. Isabelle's mom makes Isabelle go to a support group to talk about all of her
Perfect by Natasha Friend, Milkweed Editions,2004, 232pgs.,$6.95,ISBN 1-57131-651-5 Who doesnt want to be perfect? I thought. Everyone desires a perfect body, glamorous and appealing. Following the death of her father, Isabelle, a thirteen-year-old,tries to reach her goal, almost leading to the condition of an eating disorder. This summer Isabelle attends the Eating Disorder and Body Image Therapy Group which is part of the deal with her mom. Isabelle is going to seek the truth in the world
3 stars.A pretty basic novel about eating disorders (bulimia). Considering its aimed for 10-13 year olds I found it to be pretty good for that age range. It's one I'd recommend for that age group mainly.
I had a hard time deciding on rating this book. I didn't know if I wanted to give it 3 stars or 4 stars. Then, i finally decided with 3.5 stars.Normally when I expect to read pink, little book like this one, I don't expect the tone to be dark even if the back of the book already said that it was. Eating disorders and death. What a great theme for children who needs to have their eyes open for the real world.Isabelle Lee(Cool name, by the way) is a thirteen-year-old bulimic. Ever since her dad
Blech... This book was just sooooooo boring and sooooooo just anti-climatic. To put this in simple language, don't waste your time on this book. I picked this up at the library cause I was just looking for a quick, easy read. What I expected was a book similar to Donna D. Cooner's "Skinny" And I got this waste of paper and resources. REVIEW TO COME.......
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