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The Complicated Life of a Dance Sister: My Twelve Inch Mom

by Karen Stegman-Bourgeois

A family-sized problem in miniature

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A family-sized problem in miniature

Quinn’s middle-school life takes an unusual turn when her scientist mother accidentally shrinks herself during a diet-drug test. With her mother living in a dollhouse—and sometimes accompanying Quinn in her purse—the story connects an outlandish family predicament with school pressures, a dance competition, and a sudden message from Quinn’s long-lost father. Dance is part of the plot, but so are changing friendships, a crush, and the challenge of adapting when familiar routines collapse. The comic complications keep the focus on Quinn’s relationship with her mother and her efforts to manage several unpredictable situations at once.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in dance-centered stories with a fantastical family premise
  • Readers who enjoy middle-school fiction involving school conflicts, crushes, and changing friendships
  • Readers looking for comic situations built around an unusual parent-child predicament

Themes

Family relationshipsDance and performanceMiddle-school challengesAdaptation and resilience

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Book overview

Twelve-year-old Quinn's life explodes into absolute bonkers-ville when her mom-a scientist with a questionable grasp on safety protocols-accidentally SHRINKS HERSELF while testing a diet drug. (Spoiler: it does shrink fat cells... and also bones, skin, hair, and basically everything else.)

Now Quinn's stuck juggling a miniature mom who lives in a dollhouse, a school bully with a knack for knowing everything, a crush who suddenly likes the enemy, and an aunt whose "healthy" dessert experiments could be classified as biohazards.
Oh, and don't forget the neighbor's emotionally unstable guinea pig who's gone on a hunger strike, or the dance competition where Quinn totally blanks and nearly exposes her purse-dwelling parent.

Just when Quinn thinks things can't get any weirder, she gets a cryptic call from her long-lost dad... from a number that immediately self-destructs.

Middle school is hard. Middle school with a pocket-sized mom, a know-it-all bully, and a rodent named Dominic? Practically impossible. But Quinn's learning that when everything goes haywire, all you can do is find the silver lining... and maybe carry tweezers.
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