02947cam a2200349 4500 526454068 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781571318015 1571318011 B005WKEVBC Amazon db8a5235-e0e8-48f0-9647-bf862e864b7b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 278052 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Friend Natasha. Perfect [Libby]. Milkweed Editions, 2010. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 447kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. HTML:<p>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.<br /> 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.<br /> 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.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/DB8/A52/35/Perfect.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DB8A5235-E0E8-48F0-9647-BF862E864B7B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/DB8/A52/35/Perfect.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DB8A5235-E0E8-48F0-9647-BF862E864B7B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/DB8/A52/35/Perfect.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DB8A5235-E0E8-48F0-9647-BF862E864B7B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)