Mira Simon has a definite idea of what her fantasy life entails: the perfect job, the perfect house and the perfect man. After a few innocent April Fool's jokes, Mira's dream life starts becoming a reality, and she soon realizes living her fantasy may not be all that it's cracked up to be.

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.

"Oma the orangutan wants to be good at everything. But when things don't always go to plan, she discovers that trying her best is more important"--Back cover.

The sneakiest obstacle to meeting your goals is not laziness, but perfectionism. We're our own worst critics, and if it looks like we're not going to do something right, we prefer not to do it at all. That's why we're most likely to quit on day two, "the day after perfect"--when our results almost always under perform our aspirations. The strategies in this book are counterintuitive and might feel like cheating. But they're based on studies conducted...

"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...

Ariel Stone is the perfect college applicant until a failed Calculus quiz sends his grades into a tailspin that can only be halted by a handsome tutor, but adding a burgeoning romance to his other commitments may push Ariel past his limit.

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.

Perfectionistic Jerzey desperately wants to be a good ballet dancer like her sisters, but her efforts to learn are repeatedly thwarted, until she finds help in an unexpected place.

When a surfing contest comes to Dino Town, Dinah the Diplodocus, who is great at everything, discovers surfing is something she cannot do and learns there's more to having fun than winning.

"Summertime brings sun, fun, and Beaver's Birthday! But it also brings a lot of stress for Beaver as his friends take over his birthday plans. Will Beaver's fussy ways ruin his birthday and his friendships?"--back cover.