Heather Wells Rocks

Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two -- and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman ) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft.

The cops and the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. But Heather knows teenage girls . . . and girls do not elevator surf. Yet no one wants to listen -- not the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives -- even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways. So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective

But her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, and lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. And nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong . . .

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 12/27/2005
ISBN: 9780060525118
Pages: 345
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/03/2005 pg. 49
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2005 pg. 1108
Library Journal 12/01/2005 pg. 106
Entertainment Weekly 01/13/2006 pg. 83
Booklist 11/15/2005 pg. 29

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 103838 / Size 12 Is Not Fat
Reading Level: 5.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 14