num_pages: 320
description: Fourteen-year-old Iranian-American Parvin Mohammadi sets out to win the ultimate date to homecoming.Parvin has just had her heart broken when she meets the cutest boy at her new high school Matty Fumero--with an emphasis on fumero because he might be the smoking hot cure to all of her boy troubles. If Parvin can get Matty to ask her to homecoming she's positive it will erase all the awful and embarrassing feelings He Who Will Not Be Named left her with after the summer. The only problem is Matty is definitely too cool for bassoon-playing frizzy-haired Cheeto-eating Parvin. Since being herself has not worked for her in the past (see aforementioned relationship) she decides that to be the girl who finally gets the guy she should start acting like the women in her favorite rom-coms. Those girls aren't loud they certainly don't cackle when they laugh and they smile much more than they talk. Easy enough right?But as Parvin struggles through her parent-mandated Farsi lessons on the weekends a budding friendship with a boy she can't help but be her unfiltered self with and dealing with the ramifications of the Muslim Ban on her family in Iran she realizes that being herself might just be the perfect thing after all.
language: English
title: Perfectly Parvin
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers