NATASHA FRIEND

ABOUT NATASHA FRIEND

• She grew up in a house without a television.
• She spent most of her childhood in the Hamilton Public Library inhaling books.
• At age 6 she sat on her father's lap and dictating stories and he typed,
• The up on his ancient typewriter.

MORE IN NATASHA FRIEND

• 13 she was documenting every humiliating moment of her junior high In a journal
• And later after she wrote it she regretted it very much.
• Her fist book won the milkweed prize for children's literature.
• She lives in Connecticut with her husband and 3 young children .
• She still has every note that she ever received in junior high, Ina box in her closet.

GENRES

• Mother daughter fictions
• Dating social fiction
• Single parent fiction
• High school fictions
• Father daughter fiction

SIMILARITIES

• In the book for keeps it's basically like how Natasha was in junior high school
• It has all the drama she had and the romance and the difficulties of a young teen

BOOKS NATASHA FRIEND WROTE

• Perfect
• Lush
• Bounce