# Perfect

**Author:** Natasha Friend
**Grade range:** Grades 6–9
**Age range:** 11–14
**First published:** 2004
**Page count:** 232
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781571316516`
**ISBN-10:** `1571316515`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/perfect
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.

## Themes

- grief
- death
- bulimia
- fathers and daughters

## Where this book is assigned

### Nebraska Golden Sower Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2007 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2007 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2007 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 9th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2007 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)

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