# As If Being 12 3/4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running for President!

**Author:** Donna Gephart
**Grade range:** Grades 3–8
**First published:** 2008
**Page count:** 242
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780375846458`
**ISBN-10:** `037584645X`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/as-if-being-12-3-4-isnt-bad-enough-my-mother-is-running-for-president
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln . . . at one point, they all ran for president. And so is Vanessa Rothrock’s mother! As if being 12 3/4 isn’t bad enough, Vanessa Rothrock’s mother is running for president and it’s ruining her life. Isn’t it enough that her enormous feet trip her up all the time, even on stage during the school spelling bee? Isn’t it enough that Reginald Trumball, love of Vanessa’s pathetic life, read her personal and private list of deficiencies to some boy she doesn’t even know? And that the Boob Fairy hasn’t visited her even once?! Doesn’t Mom realize that Vanessa needs her more than the rest of the country? More importantly, doesn’t she realize that she may be in grave danger? Vanessa's receiving threatening notes at school–notes that imply some psycho ha

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