Finding Perfect

De: Elly Swartz

Narrado por: Jennifer Jill Araya

A girl deals with friendship, family, and OCD in this classic-feeling debut middle-grade novel by Elly Swartz.

To 12-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.

©2016 Elly Swartz (P)2021 Tantor

Good book!

The book was good I liked the character! I know a lot about OCD and some of the things this book said about it were spot on, I even cried at one point 😢, while others were not. People with OCD tend to be relatively good at hiding it and I feel how in this book the main character keeps doing her twitches around other people in very noticeable ways is not realistic. She also had the very common OCD symptoms, organizing, cleaning, but she didn’t have any of the more rare symptoms or harder to deal with ones in my opinion. Over all it was a pretty good book!