I'm not at all sure that if you gave an 11 year old to her 17 year old sister who is an early university student studying art because their mom is an alcoholic and their dad is on the road playing music that this is actually how things would turn out - but it's an entertaining and short read and enjoyable enough. Especially since the narrating character creates miniature rooms, which is pretty neat. I have two more books of this author's to go and - can you believe it - none of the five libraries I have cards to carry them, so I ordered them cheap off of Amazon to fill out my free shipping need. I'll get to them ... eventually, but I am notorious for not reading books I own. ( )