Finding perfect / Elly Swartz.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus Giroux, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: 296 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374303129
- 0374303126
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Swartz Elly D. | Available | 33111008484947 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
"With some help from her siblings and friends, Molly is able to face her OCD and be strong enough to get help for it"-- Provided by publisher.