Wendy Warren likes to write books that remind her of the movies she grew up watching with her mom--stories about ordinary people who find the courage or the love or the humor or the faith (or all of the above) to make their lives extraordinary. She lives with her bustling two-and-four-legged family in a (too-) small house previously owned by a woman named Cinderella, who bequeathed them a garden of flowers they have cruelly murdered and a pink GE oven that makes them feel as if they're in an I Love Lucy episode. Which is just fine by them!