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"A mother and daughter on vacation in Paris unpack a lifetime of secrets...Every daughter has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets. Laurie is an artist, a collector of experiences. She travels the world with a worn beige duffel bag. Every mother has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets. 'Dr. Liz,' Laurie’s mother, is an elegant perfectionist who travels the world with a matched set of suitcases....
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"Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is precise, from the way he washes his face in the morning, to the way he completes his homework--without complaint, without fuss, without prompt. Zib is also an exceptional child, because all children are, in their own way. But where everything Avery does and is can be measured, nothing Zib does can possibly be predicted, except for the fact that she can always be relied upon to be unpredictable....
7) Jaclyn Hyde
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"In this modern retelling of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a girl's quest to be perfect unleashes chaos at her middle school"--
12) The good egg
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When the other eggs in his carton behave badly, the good egg feels like he needs to be perfect.
16) Alex's challenge
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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.
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High school senior Reshma Kapoor will stop at nothing to gain admission to Stanford, including writing a novel.
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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.
19) Elfie unperfect
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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.
20) Perfect
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In this riveting and startling companion to "Impulse," 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.