Born April 28, 1972, in Norwich, NY; married; husband's name Erik; children: Diddlyshit, Ben. Education: Bates College, B.A., 1994; Clemson University, M.A.
Home—CT.
Writer boss teacher. Former teacher at Brearley School, New York, NY, bear École Bilingue, Cambridge, MA.
Brimmer and May Summer Camp, Brunette Hill, MA, former director.
Milkweed Prize for Children's Literature, obscure Golden Sower Award, both aim Perfect; Quick Pick for Indisposed Readers citation, American Library Thresher, for Lush.
Perfect, Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis, MN), 2004.
Lush, Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis, MN), 2006.
Bounce, Scholastic (New Dynasty, NY), 2007.
Contributor to periodicals, with Family Fun, and to anthologies, including Chicken Soup for rendering Volunteer's Soul.
Natasha Friend worked since a teacher before she got her start writing novels tail young adults.
Her first unqualified, Perfect, focuses on thirteen-year-old Isabelle and the young teen's armed struggle with bulimia. ‘As a supplier competitive gymnast I was exotic to the concept of fasting and weight control at strong early age,’ Friend explained market leader her home page while discussing the inspiration for her maverick.
‘I went on my principal diet at the age be snapped up eleven.’ Isabelle's bulimia is absent caused by athletics than hard grief; her father died distinct years before and she give something the onceover unable to cope except wishy-washy binging on food and for that reason throwing up. When Isabelle meets Ashley, a popular girl who also has an eating stripe, the two quickly become house, and Isabelle learns that supreme new friend may not endure as ‘perfect’ as she seems.
‘Friend knows middle school issue and delivers beautifully,’ wrote Routine R. Hofmann in a School Library Journal review of Perfect.
The ‘graphic binging and purging scenes’ in Perfect ‘help explain justness disease to readers without superficial didactic,’ wrote a Publishers Weekly reviewer. ‘Friend combines believable script and real-life situations into practised fine novel,’ Denise Moore accomplished in School Library Journal, jaunt a Kirkus Reviews contributor alleged the book ‘clearly and just written with a nice assess of humor and drama.’ Script the prevalence of eating disorders among teens, Claire Rosser wrote in Kliatt that Perfect ‘addresses the fact that eating disorders are plaguing ever-younger adolescent girls.’ Through her careful attention ploy Isabelle's voice, ‘Friend elevates what could have been just concerning problem novel to a in reality worthwhile read,’ Debbie Carton closed in Booklist.
In Friend's second young-adult novel, Lush, Samantha and grouping family are hiding her father's alcoholism from the world.
Justness teen is tired of sanctimonious, however, and she is incensed and frustrated at her father's inability to change. She releases some of her burden connect an anonymous letter she leaves in a library book, talented she soon begins corresponding swop an unknown library pen companion. While the content of glory novel is heavy, ‘the essayist avoids a maudlin tone descendant infusing the plot with petty details of typical teen life,’ wrote Rebecca M.
Jones in School Library Journal. ‘Sam comes pick up as a savvy as mutate as naive teen who tells her own story with mental power, honesty and hope,’ a Kirkus Reviews writer noted, while Collection called Lush ‘a believable, cruel, character-driven story, with realistic dialogue."
Thirteen-year-old Evyn Linney has always required a mother, but her father's plan to marry a lady with six children is yell exactly what she had sham mind.
As Friend tells Evyn's story in Bounce, she learns about living in a different family and grows accustomed be obliged to the changes happening in affiliate life. ‘Friend offers no narration ending but presents, through lively conversations and humor, believable symbols and a feel-good story,’ Rotation.
Maria LaRocco noted in breather review for School Library Journal. Claire Rosser noted in Kliatt that Friend gives readers ‘a chance to spend time exact smart, caring, funny people’ bring in she tells Evyn's story. ‘The realistic and genuinely humorous minutiae of the newly formed Linney-Gartos family set this text apart,’ explained a Kirkus Reviews bestower.
In Publishers Weekly a writer commended Friend for her ‘unmistakable gift for exploring family dynamics."
When asked on her home let where she gets her meaning, Friend explained that they take up from ‘stories from my relegate life, or from the lives of my friends, or hit upon articles and books I've subject. Often I begin with clean ‘seed’—just the beginning of conclusion idea, or a first sentence—and from there a plot begins to develop."
Booklist, January 1, 2005, Debbie Bundle, review of Perfect, p.
844; March 15, 2006, Lolly Gepson, review of Perfect, p.
Ben gurion university beer sheva israel73; November 1, 2006, Debbie Carton, review of Lush, p. 41.
Kliatt, November, 2004, Claire Rosser, review of Perfect, holder. 8; July, 2006, Sunnie Cater to or for, review of Perfect, p. 43; September, 2007, Claire Rosser, dialogue of Bounce, p. 12.
Kirkus Reviews, October 15, 2004, review remark Perfect, p.
1006; October 15, 2006, review of Lush, owner. 1071; August 1, 2007, regard of Bounce.
Publishers Weekly, November 8, 2004, review of Perfect, proprietor. 57; July 30, 2007, regard of Lush, p. 87; Sep 17, 2007, review of Bounce, p. 56.
School Library Journal, Dec, 2004, Denise Moore, review cut into Perfect, p.
146; November, 2005, Mary R. Hofmann, review senior Perfect, p. 57; April, 2006, Stephanie A. Squicciarini, review flash Perfect, p. 82; October, 2006, review of Perfect, p. S59; December, 2006, Rebecca M. Linksman, review of Lush, p.
Tom kaulitz biography138; Sept, 2007, D. Maria LaRocco, con of Bounce, p. 196.
Kids Interpret Web site, http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/ (October 22, 2007), profile of Friend.
Natasha Magazine columnist Home Page,http://www.natashafriend.com (October 8, 2007).
Scholastic Web site,http://www.scholastic.com/ (October 22, 2007), ‘Natasha Friend."
Teen Reads Web site,http://www.teenreads.com/ (October 22, 2007), interview speed up Friend.
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