Perfect, Natasha Friend
Perfect, Natasha Friend
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Perfect

Author: Natasha Friend

Narrator: Danielle Ferland

Unabridged: 4 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/08/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction


Synopsis

First-time novelist Natasha Friend is a writer with a talent for realistically expressing the fears and uncertainties of today's adolescents in a good story. Perfect has received the Milkweed Prize for Children's Literature and is a Book Sense "Winter Picks" selection. This is the moving story of a young girl who develops a dangerous eating disorder while dealing with intense grief.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathryn on April 05, 2018

As eating disorder books go, Perfect by Natasha Friend is pretty standard. It checks off all the movie-of-the-week cliches while remaining largely unsatisfying. However for junior high students, Perfect is....well....perfect. Detailed without being graphic. To sum up: If you're over 13 years-old, re......more

Goodreads review by Elle on June 01, 2017

Perfect is about eating disorders and teenage pain, and it's absolutely brilliant. This story is incredibly short and incredibly powerful. I don't know exactly why this book stands out. Maybe it's the emotional touch. Isabelle and Ashley both come off as incredibly real characters, despite the short......more

Goodreads review by Merary on February 09, 2017

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. Ea......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on September 17, 2019

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.......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 15, 2008

This is a YA book that I would definitely recommend to teenage girls. Friend has a simple, pleasant writing style that makes the novel a quick read, yet she still hits home on the issues of bulemia, loss of a parent, and most importantly, appearance vs. reality in the world of teenage girls. The pro......more