# Books like Perfect

**10** books similar to *Perfect* by Natasha Friend (Realistic Fiction · grades 6–9), matched on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level. Every pick is grade-appropriate (a reading-level match, not just a topical one) and links to where it is assigned in US schools.

**Themes:** grief, death, bulimia, fathers and daughters
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## Similar books

- [Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey](https://readinglist.school/book/dont-you-dare-read-this-mrs-dunphrey) by Margaret Peterson Haddix _(Grades 6–9)_ — Shares themes of fathers and daughters, both on the Nebraska Golden Sower Award list, and same genre (Realistic Fiction).
- [Blackwater](https://readinglist.school/book/blackwater) by Eve Bunting _(Grades 6–8)_ — Shares themes of death, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (6–8).
- [Dear Mr. Henshaw](https://readinglist.school/book/dear-mr-henshaw) by Beverly Cleary _(Grades 4–6)_ — Shares themes of grief, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (4–6).
- [Drive-By](https://readinglist.school/book/drive-by) by Lynne Ewing _(Grades 3–8)_ — Shares themes of death, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (3–8).
- [Flying Solo](https://readinglist.school/book/flying-solo) by Ralph J. Fletcher _(Grades 4–6)_ — Shares themes of death, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (4–6).
- [High Heat](https://readinglist.school/book/high-heat) by Carl Deuker _(Grades 6–9)_ — Both on the Nebraska Golden Sower Award list, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (6–9).
- [Hope in the Valley](https://readinglist.school/book/hope-in-the-valley) by Mitali Perkins _(Grades 3–6)_ — Shares themes of grief, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (3–6).
- [Loser](https://readinglist.school/book/loser) by Jerry Spinelli _(Grades 4–6)_ — Both on the Nebraska Golden Sower Award list, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (4–6).
- [Mick Harte Was Here](https://readinglist.school/book/mick-harte-was-here) by Barbara Park _(Grades 5–8)_ — Shares themes of grief, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (5–8).
- [Mississippi Trial, 1955](https://readinglist.school/book/mississippi-trial-1955) by Chris Crowe _(Grades 6–9)_ — Both on the Nebraska Golden Sower Award list, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (6–9).

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