Finding Perfect
- SKU: 9780374303129
- Category: Activity Books, Children's Fiction, Coloring Books, Comic Books for Kids ...
To twelve-year-old Molly Nathans, perfect is:
--The number four
--The tip of a newly sharpened No. 2 pencil
--A crisp white pad of paper
--Her neatly aligned glass animal figurines
What's not perfect is Molly's mother leaving the family to take a faraway job with the promise to return in one year. Molly knows that promises are sometimes broken, so she hatches a plan to bring her mother home: Win the Lakeville Middle School Poetry Slam Contest. The winner is honored at a fancy banquet with white tablecloths. Molly is sure her mother would never miss that. Right...?
But as time passes, writing and reciting slam poetry become harder. Actually, everything becomes harder as new habits appear, and counting, cleaning, and organizing are not enough to keep Molly's world from spinning out of control. In this fresh-voiced debut novel, one girl learns there is no such thing as perfect.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Elly Swartz
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: 10/18/2016
ISBN: 9780374303129
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2016
Publishers Weekly 08/29/2016
School Library Journal 09/01/2016 pg. 146
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2016
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2017 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 187062 / Finding Perfect
Reading Level: 3.7 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 6
To twelve-year-old Molly Nathans, perfect is:
--The number four
--The tip of a newly sharpened No. 2 pencil
--A crisp white pad of paper
--Her neatly aligned glass animal figurines
What's not perfect is Molly's mother leaving the family to take a faraway job with the promise to return in one year. Molly knows that promises are sometimes broken, so she hatches a plan to bring her mother home: Win the Lakeville Middle School Poetry Slam Contest. The winner is honored at a fancy banquet with white tablecloths. Molly is sure her mother would never miss that. Right...?
But as time passes, writing and reciting slam poetry become harder. Actually, everything becomes harder as new habits appear, and counting, cleaning, and organizing are not enough to keep Molly's world from spinning out of control. In this fresh-voiced debut novel, one girl learns there is no such thing as perfect.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Elly Swartz
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: 10/18/2016
ISBN: 9780374303129
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2016
Publishers Weekly 08/29/2016
School Library Journal 09/01/2016 pg. 146
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2016
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2017 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 187062 / Finding Perfect
Reading Level: 3.7 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 6
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