Keeping It Together Inch by Inch To 12-year-old Molly Nathans, perfect is the number four, the tip of a newly sharpened No. 2 pencil, a crisp white pad of paper, and her neatly aligned glass animal figurines. What's not perfect is Molly's mother leaving the family to take a faraway job with the promise to return in one year. Molly knows promises are sometimes broken, so she hatches a plan to bring her mother home. But as time passes, everything becomes harder as new habits appear, and counting, cleaning, and organizing are not enough to keep Molly's world from spinning out of control. In this fresh-voiced debut novel, one girl learns there is no such thing as perfect.
