stature, tall

Discusses the challenges and benefits of being a tall person in twenty-first-century society, and examines ways strategies to deal with the extra expenses and low ceiling heights to happily embrace tallness.

Discusses the feelings and problems caused by one's height, particularly at the preteen stage, the factors involved in growth, and ways to feel good about one's height--whatever it is.

Twelve-year-old Liam, who looks like he is thirty and is tired of being treated like he is older than he actually is, decides he is going to pose as the adult chaperone on the first spaceship to take civilians into space, but when he ends up in outer space with a group of kids and no adult supervision, he must think fast to make things right.