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4) Perfect game
Author
Series
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Isaac is a perfectionist, especially when it comes to baseball, and is unable to cope when things go wrong until his coach asks him to help out with a Unified Sports basketball team on which intellectually-disabled and other children play together.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Practically-perfect twelve-year-old Victoria Wright must lie, sneak, and break the rules when her investigation of the disappearance of her best--and only--friend, Lawrence, reveals dark secrets about her town and the orphanage run by the reclusive Mrs. Cavendish.
Author
Series
Hello reader volume Level 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A young girl who wants to be the best ice skater in the whole class learns that it is just as important to have fun.
9) The good egg
Author
Language
English
Description
When the other eggs in his carton behave badly, the good egg feels like he needs to be perfect.
12) Alex's challenge
Author
Series
Camp confidential volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
During the last weeks of summer camp, eleven-year-old Alex Kim has trouble hiding a secret from the other girls in bunk 3C while also trying to meet the high standards she sets for herself in sports, relationships, and other activities.
Author
Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Housesitting at the ultra-modern apartment of a composer friend in a glum Eastern European city, a British copywriter accidentally spills wine on the apartment's priceless wooden floor and endures a psychologically disastrous week of perfectionist repair and maintenance.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Chelsea's experiences, which include a fight with her best friend, making mistakes in the handbell concert, and saying goodbye to the only church minister she has ever known, help her to accept that things change and that people, including herself, are not perfect.
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After years of overachieving at her elite school, Mara James has a complete meltdown during her calculus exam and, embarrassed by the incident and the viral video evidence, goes to live with her ski bum father in Squaw Valley, where she hopes to find a place to figure out where her life is headed, and maybe even finally understand her father.
18) Perfect
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre, tell in their own voices of their very different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When party-crashing birds ruin Marigold's magic act during his otherwise perfect birthday party, he makes all of his guests disappear before recalling the magic words to bring them back.
Author
Series
Cookie chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After getting a fortune cookie with the message, "Practice makes perfect," Ben meets new student Darby, who claims to be perfect and offers to teach Ben his secrets.