Life in Miniature

By Linda Schlossberg

Book Overview

Adie has always known she was different. There's her size, for one thing. Born three months premature, Adie is the smallest of her peers. Then there's Adie's mother, who at first glance seems like so many other 1980s mums-clipping coupons and attending Feel the Burn aerobics classes. But beneath the surface is something erratic and unpredictable, something that makes her drag Adie and her older sister, Miriam, from one rental apartment to the next-until Miriam runs away. Adie is left behind with her mother, who is convinced their lives are in real danger and takes Adie on a crazy run across northern California. Now Adie faces a stark choice: submit to this increasingly surreal adventure, or grow up in ways she never imagined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0758238436
• ISBN13: 9780758238436
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"