Teens Write Reviews

These are all book and music reviews written by teens and librarians in our community. Click on the titles to find the items in the Sarasota County Library Catalog.

You can send your reviews to us at this e-mail address: jhitchco@scgov.net. Please include the title and author or artist, a three or four sentence review, and your first name.

May 01
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Perfect 
by Natasha Friend

Perfect, the Perfect Book. How would you feel if you had an eating disorder, or your dad died? Isabelle may have an idea. She is a young girl who has an eating disorder. She stuffs herself every meal, and throws up after. On top of that her father died, leaving her family a wreck. Her mother is always sad. Isabelle doesn’t know what to do. She is dying to break out of her shell, and start living her life again. But, when her mother finds out about her eating disorder, she sentences her to group. A place where girls with eating disorders learn to share their feelings and stop throwing up. What will happen when Isabelle becomes friends with the prettiest girl in school, Ashley Barnum? How will she feel when her aunt starts changing her mom? And what will she do when her sister wants to be like her? You can find out by reading Perfect!
—Jamie

Perfect
by Natasha Friend

Perfect, the Perfect Book. How would you feel if you had an eating disorder, or your dad died? Isabelle may have an idea. She is a young girl who has an eating disorder. She stuffs herself every meal, and throws up after. On top of that her father died, leaving her family a wreck. Her mother is always sad. Isabelle doesn’t know what to do. She is dying to break out of her shell, and start living her life again. But, when her mother finds out about her eating disorder, she sentences her to group. A place where girls with eating disorders learn to share their feelings and stop throwing up. What will happen when Isabelle becomes friends with the prettiest girl in school, Ashley Barnum? How will she feel when her aunt starts changing her mom? And what will she do when her sister wants to be like her? You can find out by reading Perfect!

—Jamie