Perfect
Margaret K. McElderry Books · Paperback · December 3, 2013
What would you give up to be perfect?
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- Who it’s for
- Four seniors chase different ideals of perfection in a story about growing into themselves.
- Genres
- Mental Illness for Teens, Eating Disorders & Body Image for Teens, Teen Suicide
- Published
- Margaret K. McElderry Books, December 3, 2013
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What would you give up to be perfect? Four teens find out in the New York Times bestselling companion to Impulse. Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be. For four high school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there. Cara’s parents’ unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide.
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For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love. Kendra covets the perfect face and body—no matter what surgeries and drugs she needs to get there. To score his perfect home run—on the field and off—Sean will sacrifice more than he can ever win back. And Andre realizes that to follow his heart and achieve his perfect performance, he’ll be living a life his ancestors would never understand. A riveting and startling companion to the bestselling Impulse, Ellen Hopkins’s Perfect exposes the harsh truths about what it takes to grow up and grow into our own skins, our own selves.
Perfection’s Price
Four seniors chase different ideals of perfection in a story about growing into themselves.
Come here for
- Competing visions of perfection, from body image to love and ambition
- A frank look at the costs of trying to become someone else
Expect
- Four high school seniors facing pressure, risk, and difficult choices
- Coming-of-age intensity with themes of suicide, identity, and body image
Where it sits
| Teen Suicide | 50% |
|---|---|
| Eating Disorders & Body Image for Teens | 47% |
| Mental Illness for Teens | 47% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Dating & Sex for Teens
- Addiction & Substance Use for Teens
- Finding Your Footing
- Authors
- Ellen Hopkins
- Publisher
- Margaret K. McElderry Books
- Published
- December 3, 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Dating & Sex for Teens