Toothpick Legs

Ashley Vaughn is a typical 12-year-old girl growing up in Texas in the 1990s. Her school days start by riding in the backward-facing hatchback seat of her neighbor's station wagon, since the older kids got to pick seats first during the carpool. Ashley's parents are loving and eccentric, and her sister spends most of her time on the phone with her boyfriend.

Ashley does her best to navigate the shenanigans of home-and-school life surrounded by family and friends. One of her more mortifying m...