Perfect

By Natasha Friend

Perfect is an amazing book in so many ways. It is about a girl named Isabel Lee who is thirteen, and in eighth grade. She has an eating disorder called bulimia. This is when you force yourself to throw up for no reason except the fact you want to get skinny. Many children and teens die from this disease. One day Isabel’s sister finds out she has this disease because she caught her in the bathroom forcing herself to throw up. She tells her mom and her mom sends her to a therapy group for children with eating disorders.
On the first day of the class she walks into a room and standing on the couch right in front of her is one of the most popular girls in the school… Ashley. She then immediately thinks, “How can she be popular with this kind of disease?” So for once in her life Isabel begins to see that not all popular people are perfect. She still wonders if Ashley has told anybody. You can find out why Ashley is in therapy and if Isabel can overcome this horrible eating disorder by reading, Perfect.
I enjoyed this book because you can really feel the way the person in the book feels – from their point of view. Also, there are not many books on such serious matters that can really explain the problems. There are also a lot of cliff hangers which make you want to keep on reading this book.
I read Perfect because my sister had read it and had really enjoyed it. She said that it had been one of her favorite books and after I had read it I agree one hundred percent. Another person who also had enjoyed this book was Claire. So as you can see this book is one of my favorites and I think it might be one of yours too!

By Charlotte M.