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Author
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (29 pages) : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
Cami and Isa are very different sisters. Cami always wants to be perfect whereas Isa is confident she's always perfect even if she's not. When they go to basketball camp, the sisters learn that it's okay to just have fun but that practice can be a good thing too.
2) The good egg
Author
Series
Food group volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the other eggs in his carton behave badly, the good egg feels like he needs to be perfect.
3) Not perfect
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Dot grows increasingly frustrated that she is not perfect at anything.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning first with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, live for, go to church with, don't like, don't understand, fear, struggle with, compare ourselves to, and judge. People are the best and worst thing about the human life. Jen Hatmaker knows this all too well, and so she reveals how to practice kindness, grace, truthfulness, vision,...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Beaver's friends insist on baking him a birthday cake, but Beaver, the ultimate perfectionist, would rather do it himself, and in doing so realizes perfection does not necessarily mean perfect.
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xviii, 243 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflections on learning to live with imperfection in a culture of self-help that promotes endless progress, from the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason and the executive producer of the Everything Happens podcast. In Kate Bowler's bestselling memoir Everything Happens for a Reason, readers witnessed the ways she, as a divinity-school professor and young...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Marigold the cat likes everything just so, but when he sets out to bake a perfect cake one Monday, he is interrupted by one finch, two pigeons, and three loons.
Author
Series
Camp confidential volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
132 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
10) Perfect game
Author
Series
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
143 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
vii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A highly regarded professor of psychology at the London School of Economics, sharing contemporary evidence, explores how the pursuit of perfection can lead to burnout and depression and shows what we can do to resist the modern-day pressure to be perfect to led a more purposeful and contented life.
12) Enter title here
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school senior Reshma Kapoor will stop at nothing to gain admission to Stanford, including writing a novel.
13) Rocky road
Author
Series
Sons of scandal volume 2
Publisher
Becky Wade
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"FBI Agent Jude Camden handles every aspect of his job with by-the-book professionalism. There's no reason why his latest assignment—which calls for him to pose as the boyfriend of perfumer Gemma Clare—should be any different. Except Gemma is different. She's creative, bold, and feisty. And as soon as she meets Jude, she wants to loosen him up, wrinkle his perfect shirts, and test every ounce of his towering self-control."--
15) Elfie unperfect
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a series of spectacular--and at times, hilarious--disasters, including being expelled from school, perfectionist Elfie Oster discovers what truly matters as she tries to make sense of everything that is happening to her.
16) Perfect
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Author Waka T. Brown and artist Yuko Jones join forces for this picture book about a young girl who learns to appreciate life's imperfections when her grandmother teachers her about the Japanese art form kintsugi. Miki Amelia Masuda liked everything in her life to be perfect. Her room was immaculately clean. She only ate round cookies, not the broken ones. And if a stuffed animal had a tear in it, she couldn't bear to look at it. So when she accidentally...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
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
Food group volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
Español
Description
Nuestro protagonista es un huevo muy bueno: te riega las plantas, te cambia los neumáticos ¡y hasta te pinta la casa! Si necesitas ayuda para lo que sea, él es tu huevo. Pero, a veces, ser demasiado bueno no da el mejor resultado...
When the other eggs in his carton behave badly, the good egg feels like he needs to be perfect.
Author
Series
Cookie chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Confessions volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.