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Margaret K. McElderry Books, September 2011
eBook, 640 pages
ISBN-10: 1442423579
ISBN-13: 9781442423572
Grades: 9 and up
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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. 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 have understood.
Everyone wants to be perfect, but when perfection loses its meaning, how far will you go? What would you give up to be perfect?
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.
Cara’s parents’ unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. 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 have understood.
Everyone wants to be perfect, but when perfection loses its meaning, how far will you go? What would you give up to be perfect?
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.
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"This page-turner pulls no emotional punches."
-- Kirkus Reviews, April 2011
"Hopkins sticks to the signature style that has made her books bestsellers, blending verse poetry with controversial topics . . . to intrigue her fans and recruit new ones."
-- Publishers Weekly, July 2011
"This companion to Impulse can stand alone, but packs considerably more punch when read contiguously as intended. . . . Hopkins’s legions of fans will no doubt devour Perfect and welcome the return of the characters they learned to love in Impulse."
-- SLJ, August 2011
"Hopkins addresses teens’ struggle with unrealistic expectations in gut-wrenching free verse."
-- Booklist, August 2011
"At its nucleus, four teenagers are grappling with insecurities that become exacerbated when loved ones turn up the heat. . . . The unrestricted access Hopkins employs is formidable: parents, siblings, love interests, and outliers all thrust frank judgment on the characters. It is how Cara, Sean, Kendra, and Andre react that encourages readers’ emotional attachments. Her writing conveys teenage quandaries with all of the intended consequences, as the verse style only serves to shock as the events unfold."
-- VOYA, October 2011
KansasCity.com, September 11, 2011
...� 7:30 p.m. Sept. 13. Mabee Theater, Rockhurst University, 54th and Troost. www.rockhurst.edu (816-501-4053) ELLEN HOPKINS: Author will discuss and sign her book, �Perfect.� 6:30 p.m. Sept. 14. Johnson County Library-Central Resource ...
Omaha World-Herald, September 10, 2011
...those who have just discovered her. Sponsored by the Jane Austen Society of North America Nebraska Region. » Ellen Hopkins, Tuesday, 7 p.m., Millard Library, 13214 Westwood Lane. Hopkins, the author of "Burned," "Identical," "Crank" and ...
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