FINDING PERFECT By: Elly Swartz

FINDING PERFECT  By: Elly Swartz
Molly Nathans is what some would call a neat freak. She is obsessed with having every single thin perfect. Molly also has some weird habits, she is constantly counting by 4, carefully aligning her glass animal collection, and sharpening no. 2 pencils. When her mother leaves her family of 5 to work in Canada, things get even worse. But Molly has a plan. She is going to win the annual Poetry Slam competition, which will force her mom to come back for the final round. As the deadline looms closer and closer Molly starts to get worried. Every time things are not perfectly organized she feels that she has to reorganize it or else something "bad" will happen. She cannot stop counting, she has to wash her hands 4 times before she eats anything, almost everything she does has to be done 4 times. Molly is worried she is going crazy and people are starting to notice. This is an amazing book that i would recommend to anyone who enjoys realistic fiction. Almost anyone could read and enjoy this book but ages 9-14 will probably like it the best.  Reviewed by Ella age 13, $16.99 Farrar Straus and Giroux